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Some companies in the past held enormously more power than today's corporations. VOC of The Netherlands owned Indonesia and had a mercenary army of over a hundr
by yostrovs 7y ago
Some companies in the past held enormously more power than today's corporations. VOC of The Netherlands owned Indonesia and had a mercenary army of over a hundred thousand.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
- kube-system 7y agoAnd they weren't the only ones doing that stuff at the time, the British East India Company had plenty of their own territory. Some argue that some live in borderline corporatocracies now, but the 17th century was a completely different ball game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India