Hu, yeah, it's quite fitting you say that here...it's kind of frightening that todays global players on the market with quasi-monopolies and basically "owned" workers(wether that be coffee plantations, cloths manufactories, oil companies or electronics companies) seriously remind me of the british east india company.
Only they learned to have their "strong arm" be the nations they basically force into choosing their POV in any conflicts that arise.
Yeah, i'm bitter.
To the point i'd much prefer a machiavellian scheming dictator a'la Lord Vetinari to the governments we have now -_-
That's exactly how I see it, yes. And I do tend to think of our East India Company when I think of our past. Exploiting another nation's resources and "protecting your interests overseas" by use of military force strikes me as hugely immoral. It'd be a bit like going to war with an oil-producing country because we didn't like the price they were quoting us. ;)
I wouldn't say you're bitter. Maybe your few is a little "darker", but still not far from what I believe as well.
The thing with autocratic regimes -it's always a gamble, and statistically for every good monarch you'll have a bunch of his useless offspring. Until they get overthrown by another bloodline.
Who owns those damn ISLANDS -China vs. Japan?
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Hu, yeah, it's quite fitting you say that here...it's kind of frightening that todays global players on the market with quasi-monopolies and basically "owned" workers(wether that be coffee plantations, cloths manufactories, oil companies or electronics companies) seriously remind me of the british east india company.
Only they learned to have their "strong arm" be the nations they basically force into choosing their POV in any conflicts that arise.
Yeah, i'm bitter.
To the point i'd much prefer a machiavellian scheming dictator a'la Lord Vetinari to the governments we have now -_-
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That's exactly how I see it, yes. And I do tend to think of our East India Company when I think of our past. Exploiting another nation's resources and "protecting your interests overseas" by use of military force strikes me as hugely immoral. It'd be a bit like going to war with an oil-producing country because we didn't like the price they were quoting us. ;)
I wouldn't say you're bitter. Maybe your few is a little "darker", but still not far from what I believe as well.
The thing with autocratic regimes -it's always a gamble, and statistically for every good monarch you'll have a bunch of his useless offspring. Until they get overthrown by another bloodline.