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Companies have a long history of using violence, and of local officials looking the other way when they do.
by jonnycomputer 3y ago
Companies have a long history of using violence, and of local officials looking the other way when they do.
- adventured 3y agoGovernments have murdered over one hundred million people over the last few centuries through war and forced famines. Corporations don't even enter that conversation given the scale difference. Napoleon's government alone murdered more people than all corporations combined have throughout all of history. And that's a revered historical figure that routinely gets fawning movies made about him, there are obviously worse examples. Mao's government murdered several times more than Napoleon did.