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Re:Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes fin... by MomoXenosaga on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:11AM (#28744948)
The VOC did improve Dutch society, hell the Netherlands was able to defeat the Spanish empire thanks to the spice trade.
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Re:Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes fin... by Maarten88 on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:32AM (#28745055)
OP probably also thought about other societies involved, like the Indonesians, who did not really benefit, quite the opposite, and with far more people.
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Re:Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes fin... by ZeroGravitas on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:40AM (#28745093)
Or OP might have been considering the theory that "Fascism is Colonialism turned inward" and the impacts of that that the Dutch themselves later felt.
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Re:Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes fin... by MomoXenosaga on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:12PM (#28748745)
But then who gets priority here? The Netherlands or Indonesia? And it can easily be debated Indonesia as we know it would not exist without the VOC...
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Re:Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes fin... by orestarod on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:08PM (#28765659)
Would that be a bad thing?
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