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Probably this one, over four hundred years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Compan
by jfim 6y ago
Probably this one, over four hundred years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
- thepace 6y agoIf Amazon turns out to be similar to Dutch East India Company, we are looking at Amazon growing 200 years old with dozens of settlements and colonies all over the world.
- daveslash 6y agoRe>> "all over the world" You're forgetting about Blue Origin. Their website has a picture of a rocket standing on the moon that literally says "This Time To Stay"
- phobosanomaly 6y agoSuper interesting comparison. From the Wikipedia article: "...the company traded with Indianised Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade." It's a dumb comparison, I know, but it strikes me as similar to how Amazon wound up with a pseudo-monopoly on many goods during the pandemic as brick-and-mortars were shuttered. And a quote in a quote from the article: "The Dutch, it seems, more than anyone in the West since the palmy days of ancient Rome, had more money than they knew what to do with. They discovered, unlike the Romans, that the best use of money was to make more money." Weirdly apropos.