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| Topic | I love how in dystopian sci-fi fantasy, it's always a corporation fucking people |
| coolguyjimmy 08/18/22 10:41:14 AM #9: | Dystopian MegaCorp novels are not really the future, but the past in a mirror dimly. Look up the East India Trading Company, and what they did. "At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world, competing with the Dutch East India Company. The HEIC even had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three Presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the army of Britain. The operations of the company had a profound effect on the global balance of trade, almost single-handedly reversing the trend of eastward drain of Western bullion, seen since the Roman times." ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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