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[+] gowan@reddthat.com 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

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[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

I lumped mercantilism in with capitalism. I mean, they are two flavors of a very similar thing, it's just that before the Dutch East India Company, a company had to disband when the reason it was formed was over, but you know that eventually someone was going to come up with the idea to just not do that, and they did with the Dutch East Indies Company.

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[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

The direct government involvement of mercantilism also carried on into what became capitalism. Which makes it harder to separate the two. Especially as capitalists started buying governments (or using military force, either their own, or a friendly government)

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