• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is that the Dutch East India Company was under a legal charter where they could make war with and enslave whoever they wanted to as a quasi-independent entity.

    That’s what the stock market concept is based upon. Slavery and murder.