just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 8 days agoThere Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideastwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1277arrow-down11 cross-posted to: world@quokk.aunews@hexbear.networldnews@lemmy.mlworldnews@lemmygrad.mlworld@lemmy.worldnews@lemmings.world
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minus-squareshawn1122@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days agoThe origin story in the modern era is the British East India company 35 million people genocided in 100 years. Forced cash cropping so that farmers were growing opium, indigo and poppy rather than food. Increased taxes during drought to pay out more to shareholders back in London. Throughout thousands of years of Indian history the cultural norm was for taxes to be either reduced of waived during drought. Extracting human suffering elsewhere for capital at home. That’s what the East India company did. One of the world’s first joint stock corporations.
minus-squarenotsure@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days ago…are you in a roundabout way saying that trying to extract maximum profit is a bad thing?
minus-squareshawn1122@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoSurely if that is one of the origins of corporations it will only get better from there right? Human suffering can’t be foundational to the system, can it? ^^^^/s
The origin story in the modern era is the British East India company
35 million people genocided in 100 years.
Forced cash cropping so that farmers were growing opium, indigo and poppy rather than food.
Increased taxes during drought to pay out more to shareholders back in London.
Throughout thousands of years of Indian history the cultural norm was for taxes to be either reduced of waived during drought.
Extracting human suffering elsewhere for capital at home. That’s what the East India company did. One of the world’s first joint stock corporations.
…are you in a roundabout way saying that trying to extract maximum profit is a bad thing?
Surely if that is one of the origins of corporations it will only get better from there right? Human suffering can’t be foundational to the system, can it? ^^^^/s
What a tart!