Explanation: The British East India Company was a British corporation which, in the 1700s and 1800s, managed to worm itself into power over most of the Indian subcontinent, ruling over Indian kings and princes - including a company army that was larger than the actual British army. Talk about regulatory capture!
Akshually…East India Company is a term…you have to put a specific country before it. For instance…we Dutch often shout “GEKOLONISEERD!!!” when Dutch are mentioned anywhere on the internet, which is a direct reference to the Dutch East India Company robbing a country blind…maybe here and there a little human rights violations and pillaging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_(disambiguation)
lmao, I edited to fix that, then!
It doesn’t really matter, the Dutch east India company did the same as the British one, only in Indonesia. They too had their own army and we’re setting the laws there.
Hehe, we got the idea from the British though and are now salty anytime they are mentioned the OG company name.
Cyberpunk dystopia: exists
Elon Musk: “If it was done by a benelovent person like me, it would be a utopia!!!”
Also Hudson Bay Company. They controlled Rupert’s Land in Canada. They were the de facto government for 200 years. They had their own military and even paid out their workers in scrip, so their own currency.
Hudson Bay Company is the oldest corporation in Canada and they still exist.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, CNN, GM, your ISP, cable and phone providers, Hanes, Kellogg, Coca Cola, Philip Morris Kraft, Fox, Disney…
Evil and corporate, certainly; government, no. As horrific as corporate influence in government is, it’s not the same horror as a corporation being the government.
Like the difference between being guillotined and being crucified. Both are bad, and for the same basic reason, and you should do whatever you can to escape the fate of either - but one is definitely worse.
Corporate lobbiests writing government policy isn’t corporate government?
Corporate lobbiests writing government policy isn’t corporate government?
Corporate lobbyists writing government policy isn’t the same as a corporation literally employing and enforcing every aspect of the government, no.
