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Wow that was so missing the point. I was kinda more hinting towards how the East India Company financed wars of conquest, meddled in local politics, and then ne
by maaku 12y ago
Wow that was so missing the point. I was kinda more hinting towards how the East India Company financed wars of conquest, meddled in local politics, and then neglected their responsibilities to the population and let them starve (e.g. Bengal famine of 1770).
- mindcrime 12y agoFrom my point-of-view, that stuff just kinda goes without saying, when talking about the East India Company. So yeah, we all know that big companies / corporations sometimes do Bad Things. But in the context of a discussion about whether or not a corporation should have Nation-State level power, the interesting point in noting that the East India Company (of at least one iteration) was created by Royal Charter and had (essentially) it's own army, etc., is exactly that paradox of how intertwined corporations and States can be. Again, I'm not arguing for corporations like that. I'm just interested in the discussion vis-a-vis how power can/should/might be organized and controlled.