Emigration into the colonies spurred the export of capital to those colonies. That first impulse was less imperialist than it was imperial. The export of capital along with the labor was an artifact of the Industrial Revolution's creation of superfluous factors of production. That Revolution engendered abundance by way of the rapid expropriation of the fertile core.
The nation-state did not know how to produce social and economic organizations for the sake of slowing down the expropriation so as to give the society a chance to manage the abundance and integrate the growth in wealth and excess. It was like a torrent of rain that could not be absorbed into the earth and runs off into flash floods. The society did not know how to recognize where enough was.
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