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rxyz | 4 months ago

Corporations used to not have that much political power

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krapp|4 months ago

Corporations used to have their own militaries, they colonized entire nations and owned people. They underwrote kings and empires.

int_19h|4 months ago

While this is all true, they were limited to targeting smaller, less economically developed nations, where a private army was sufficient.

Today, though, one can reasonably argue that megacorps have managed to successfully capture the most powerful government on Earth.

platevoltage|4 months ago

Yeah. The East India Company was famously powerless.