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> Consider all the horrors that large nations have inflicted on this world. The British East India company was a corporation when it took over large parts of I

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > The British East India company was a corporation when it took over large parts of India. Corporations are chartered by governments and reflect the chartering government’s values (which may be laissez-faire, but in the case of the British East India Company—and it's state-granted monopoly, violations of which were punishable by indefinite term of imprisonment—were decidedly not.)