The Daily Blog Open Mic – 4th January 2025
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/583148/man-who-failed-to-remove-backyard-cheese-facility-told-to-pay-120-000
This is Australian news but there is something here that is relevant to us, which is
how state authorities have ever tighter controls on citizens so limiting opportunities
for them to earn a living, advance themselves, while large entities who might be even foreign can be given rights to enter the country, do business there, and swamp or squeeze out the ‘natives’.
It works like the old colonialism. The East India Company* was in India operating and enriching some Indians and many Brits for 200? years for example. Now the tech giants are owning the world one way or another. Cracks occur in our society but we ‘soldier’ on. But we have already fought battles to allow the downtrodden to rise and get a life. Yet we have allowed those enabling laws and systems to be swept away. There aren’t hundreds of years for us to build new sandcastles now the really big boys are stamping on all our acquired people-centred useful ways and mechanisms.
East India Company | British trading company (1600–1874)
The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies, and later with East Asia…
and
abbr. VOC [veː(j)oːˈseː]), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.[3][4] Established on 20 March 1602[5] by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies, it was granted a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia.[6] Shares in the company could be purchased by any citizen of the Dutch Republic and bought and sold in open-air secondary markets, one of which became the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.[7] The company possessed quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts,[8] negotiate treaties, strike its own coins, and establish colonies.[9] Because it traded across multiple colonies and countries from both the East and the West, the VOC is sometimes considered to have been the world’s first multinational corporation.,,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company]