[the_monocle]

Uhm the east indian company has an estimated death toll in the dozens of million people? [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in...

The company was only nationalised in 1858 and until then effectively colonised india until then

[nanis]

> [The Queen] granted her charter to their corporation named Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies.[15] For a period of fifteen years, the charter awarded the company a monopoly[26] on English trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan.[27] Any traders there without a licence from the company were liable to forfeiture of their ships and cargo (half of which would go to the Crown and half to the company), as well as imprisonment at the "royal pleasure".[28]

Government granted monopoly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

[Jensson]

The government didn't tell them to kill or enslave people, they did that on their own since that was more profitable than not doing it. The government then stepped in and forced them to stop killing and enslaving, which made the world a better place, today we don't have many companies that kill or enslave thanks to governments.

[jncfhnb]

Monopoly is the natural state. Government is the only reason we have any alternatives.

[mnky9800n]

Dozens of millions of dead people is chump change to any empire.

[Jensson]

USA hasn't killed more than dozens of millions. If that is chump change then it makes USA looks pretty good for an empire.