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>few come close to the power held by companies in various colonies any petty despot enjoys the same level of power
by wavefunction 7y ago
>few come close to the power held by companies in various colonies
any petty despot enjoys the same level of power
- yourbandsucks 7y agoNot really. Despots usually have politics to deal with. Not everything is possible. The companies in question had a massive technological and force advantage over the local populace with free reign when it came to managing dissent with force. Their only political concerns were back in Europe.