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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 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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"...nuclear power plants they have a choice they can have chinese corporations build the nuclear power plants or they can have nuclear power plants..."
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"...this does is it basically allows the government to subsidize private corporations in the manufacture of weapons okay so these companies General Motors, Ford..."
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"...ceos and what this means is that from about 2000 americans corporations they tried their best to bring in more diversity into the corporate..."
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"...have high risk tolerance or they take chances also to navigate corporations you need high EQ emotional intelligence empathy collaboration skills okay these are..."
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"...him, no, keep it for yourself. That's really strange, guys. What corporation is so generous? Why would they do that? Well, there are three..."
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"...Then you have technofuturism, which is the idea that some big corporations, usually these tech companies, they want to control the world. And so..."
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"...respect by this nexus of power. Okay? Also, you have like corporations. Right? And then at the outer edge are the people. Okay? The..."
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"...metaphor that we use is this. Think of society as a corporation. The people are the workers. Right? They're the ones who do the..."
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"...pictures of power. Basically, they want to spend money from the corporation. And now the corporation is in trouble."
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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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