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Genuinely curious: which centralized businesses existed in 8000 BCE?
by gpxyz 3y ago
Genuinely curious: which centralized businesses existed in 8000 BCE?
- z2h-a6n 3y agoAnd more to the point, what fraction of centralized businesses in the past 10,000 (or even 1,000, or even 100) years did not eventually fail?
- roughly 3y agoAs the saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid - everything eventually falls, but Twitter's not on the long side of "eventually" here.
- djbusby 3y ago400 years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avedis_Zildjian_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avedis_Zildjian_Company https://www.muroji.com/en/ https://www.muroji.com/en/
- Nemo_bis 3y agoI would bet that the first multinational organization to corner an intercontinental market was the apostolic church of Rome. If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_international_trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_international_trad... is right, the necessary technology for international trade was not available before 4000 BCE (horse riding ~3700 BCE, long-distance sea travel ~2000 BCE).