R.I.P. Scout26
Did they send prison ships to the Americas? Because 3/4 of my lineage likely came over on one of those.
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
lots of indentured servants, probably lots of folks on the run but no prison ships ( afaik )like Botany Bay.