Did colonization ever actually work for the people it was brought to?

From the Berlin Conference to the Congo Free State to the Bengal Famine, the pattern is consistent:

Extraction moved outward.
The consequences stayed.
The record is there.

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Another had to correct itself centuries later.

Small words.
Big history.

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