What does the UK, France and the Netherlands have in common?

[Husar]

I'm not referring to forts. I'm referring to palaces, administration, offices, housing, railroads, trams, ports, and industry.

That's exactly what I said when I said infrastructure and forts....
And that you are not referring to the inconvenient parts doesn't improve the reality one bit.

Laws are always made by the ruling class, so I'm not sure what your point is here, and have nothing to do with colonisation. Laws in Laos or Thailand are made by locals, and slavery hasn't exactly disappeared...

I meant the laws of the dictators, and the Dutch decided they had enough of those. Tht the ruling class makes the laws is irrelevant, in a democracy the people are the ruling class.