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by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
That's really interesting, I'd read the crap out of that US corporate history book if you ever recall the name.
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by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
This sounds really exciting until I start seeing stuff like this: > Yes, if you aren’t on Apple Music you are an idiot. I tried Apple Music a couple years ago and switched back to Spotify after my free trial because I strongly preferred
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by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
> The broader question and sentiment of this piece is: how exactly have people who supposedly work in Public Service amassed such wealth when these positions are paid so low Usually, those folks come from money to begin with, which makes
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by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
It is literally a direct quote from the post I originally responded to.
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by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
Sure, I'm not trying to argue that VOC was the very first company. Companies of various types date back to the silk road. But large-scale corporations were largely conceptualized during mercantilism and their history is inextricably ti
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by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
I'm certainly not trying to imply that capitalism is more or less peaceful than it was in the 17th century, I guess the main point that I'm trying to make is that corporations exist to generate profit, they never really existed to
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by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
> We invented corporations to help improve society I think it's easy to say this, but I'm not sure the history of corporations bears this out. Technically, the first corporations were colonial expeditionary forces (like the Dut
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