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The Dutch East India Company is presented as a quasi-state corporation with monopoly, army, currency, government, and law-making power.
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The VOC is presented as the first multinational corporation: not government-controlled, but empowered to raise armies, make laws, issue currency, and monopolize spice trade.
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"...almost like a nation onto itself. It becomes the world's wealthiest corporation even today."
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"Okay? And the reason why, it is a monopoly over the spice trade from the East Indies. It has its own army, it has..."
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"...important in human history because this is considered the first multinational corporation in the world, okay? This corporation, it's not controlled by the government,..."
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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