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There aren’t any examples of state run businesses this old, right? It seems like at 1,500 years governments aren’t robust enough to survive. So any business run
by prepend 2y ago
There aren’t any examples of state run businesses this old, right? It seems like at 1,500 years governments aren’t robust enough to survive. So any business run by a government would not survive the political upheavals.
- archgoon 2y agoThe Church of Sinai has operated Saint Catherine's Monastery for nearly 1500 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery
- alephnerd 2y agoSt Catherine's Monastery is not a business
- archgoon 2y agoI mean, if you want to argue it's a Non Profit, not a business, go ahead, but I'm not particularly interested in fitting modern tax code and business rules to an entity that has existed for 1500 years. The organization has existed and has had a need to find funding for it's activities. Since the question was about 'state' run entities, the goal of "making a profit" seemed not particular salient. Honestly, I thought the more contentious part of this claim was going to be if the Church of Sinai constituted a state.
- alephnerd 2y ago> I thought the more contentious part of this claim was going to be if the Church of Sinai constituted a state That is not as contentious, because it's basically autocephalous/self governing. It's always been a couple dozen loners in the Sinai peninsula maintaining self sufficiency, which is why I don't find it a good example - as there are plenty of similarly old and continuous organizations, but never truly scaled.
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- anigbrowl 2y agoOh well, guess there's nothing you can learn from it then