deep Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Not really a topic of discussion just wanted to share this piece of information that i learned today. Please mods if not appropriate delete. Credit /r/todayilearned http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1a1rfw/til_the_dutch_east_india_company_was_the_most/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devante del Nero Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I think it's interesting, there have always been shadowy organizations and influential groups doing their best to control and manipulate the alrgest amount of people, but the East India Company was kind of the first megacorporation with that kind of power and a ton of it. I think because of the sudden increase in possibility of transportation. Before that communities and people were more or less dependent on local sustainability (farming, etc) to survive, so how could one financial entity gain more than so much power over the essentials to life. Add in the advances in sea trade being able to haul goods without spoiling over seas and it kind of took a leap to where a much larger trade organization could have a certain degree of control over how well people lived. Now look at today, we have plains and vehicles and it's never been more possible for a community or even a country to be completely dependent on foreign influences for its people to literally survive, and today we have more and more wealthy/powerful moneyed institutions all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Loe Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Indeed)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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