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Originally Posted by Luffy
the Dutch East India Company was worth several times the value of Google.
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It would be far more accurate to compare The Dutch East India Company, and similar mercantile states with Singapore, or the People's Republic of China, than with Google, Apple, etc. (Unfair comparison with PRC. That country wouldn't tolerate the degree of incompetence, especially for port maintainence, that the Dutch East India Company endured.)
Another difference is that The Dutch East India Company had its own troops to demolish local opposition. Somehow, I can't see any current nation state looking favourably on Apple or Google for destroying the employees of their competitors.
Amber