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What a glib article! It was about as horrifying as reading about a hypothetical article on Industrial Engineering takeaways from the Third Reich. The East Indi
by vivegi 4y ago
What a glib article!
It was about as horrifying as reading about a hypothetical article on Industrial Engineering takeaways from the Third Reich.
The East India Company was an exploitative, ruthless and dishonorable organization that put millions of people in the Indian subcontinent to untold suffering.
Perhaps, the takeaway is to learn NOT to do that?!
- verisimi 4y agoFor you perhaps, but the takeaway for billionaires is to learn how to do this and have everyone accept their suffering. So, how do you get people to work more, pay more, receive less, everywhere? The answer to that question is public relations, or exploiting human psychology to get the turkeys to vote for Christmas. Modern news events are illuminating from that perspective.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoKnow your enemy.
- pessimizer 4y agoThat's not modern. These days you take being ignorant of your enemy as a point of pride, and treat everyone who seems too familiar with your enemy as suspicious.
- keepquestioning 4y agoWe will likely be dealing with extraterrestrial megacorps like EIC in the next 100 years, good to know how they function.
- pottertheotter 4y agoI don’t know, it sounds like you’re not being very inclusive towards others, especially when they are exploitative, ruthless, dishonorable people.
- ReptileMan 4y ago>The East India Company was an exploitative, ruthless and dishonorable organization that put millions of people in the Indian subcontinent to untold suffering. The history is full of exploitative, ruthless and dishonorable organizations that barely had shards of success of the British East India company. So they obviously did something right. "Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book"
- exBarrelSpoiler 4y agoThe BEIC was only sporadically profitable and required frequent British government intervention to keep it afloat. Corruption was widespread and its armies were forced to put down almost constant insurgences.
- dartharva 4y agoWhat they did in India was mostly the result of its field team (middle management) taking things into its own hands and operating almost completely free from oversight. The EIC was only supposed to establish trade between the two continents, instead it became a rogue mercenary power-broker between the subcontinent's fragmented pseudo-kingdoms and ended up taking control of all South Asia. From whatever reports the upper management and regulators could scrape up at that time, there were many voices raised against the mayhem this enterprise was causing, but all complaints were quickly shot down after they saw the kind of riches the company was sending back home.
- mijamo 4y agoThere are plenty of books about the engineering takeaways from the Third Reich. The fact that it was evil does not mean one should ignore everything about it.
- exBarrelSpoiler 4y agoThey probably don't praise it with all of the glee of a Medium influencer article like OP does to the BEIC though.