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Corporations did just that in the specific part of the world under discussion here. I suggest you look into the East India Trading Company, Dutch East India and
by tssva 6y ago
Corporations did just that in the specific part of the world under discussion here. I suggest you look into the East India Trading Company, Dutch East India and French East India companies.
- pedro_hab 6y agoI didn't say corporations are all good, but the fact that you had to go back to the 17th century to find an example tells a lot. Governments have been killing people since their beginning and probably as we speak.
- devdas 6y agohttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/the-pause-that-represses-coca-colas-controversies/64456/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/the-pause... As have corporations.
- pedro_hab 6y agoSure, i wouldn’t disagree I do think that’s happening now. governments do that and much worse. Right now there are people in concentration camps. I get that corporations can be bad, but they don’t have the monopoly on violence. To conflate corporation’s violence with governments is a stretch. It’s funny that people point at corporations being bad, while at the same time defending the worse offender. I think people can be bad, and having a power form corporations make it worse, but the power government gives to terrible people is much worse. * edited would with wouldn’t
- tssva 6y agoI didn't need to go back to the 17th century but it seemed an appropriate example given the part of the world under discussion.