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The Dutch Republic's federal city-state structure made consultation necessary and helped explain the VOC as a shared monopoly to avoid destructive internal competition.
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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.
The VOC's profit-only corporate logic produced monopoly violence, including ethnic cleansing, enslavement, and repeated wars to control spice production.
The Dutch Republic's federal city-state structure made consultation necessary and helped explain the VOC as a shared monopoly to avoid destructive internal competition.
"...something called the Dutch East Indies Company. And it's known as VOC in Dutch, okay? The Dutch East Indies Company. This is really important..."
"this will allow the Dutch East Indies Company to work hard to control the trade in the East Indies. Because if they work hard,..."
"All right, so another really important thing to remember about the Dutch Republic is that it's a coalition of the Dutch Republic as a..."
"also have the freed man okay so these are slaves who are freed to work in household and then you have the slaves okay..."
The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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