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Re:How the Oldest Company in the World Survived Nearly 1,500... by hinkley on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:34AM (#41426317)
You’re the one who picked the only church that has its own country. Don’t shoot the messenger.
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Re:How the Oldest Company in the World Survived Nearly 1,500... by permo-w on Thursday September 05, 2024 @07:25AM (#41455533)
so does disney. it's irrelevant. neither of them have any real citizens other than employees of the institution.

a church is a completely different institution to a country. countries are not decentralised. they do not advertise. they are (usually) not selling an idea. you cannot just decide to become a member of a country. the catholic church is all of those things and so are businesses. the catholic church is essentially a very entrenched business with a weak facade of being a state.

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Re:How the Oldest Company in the World Survived Nearly 1,500... by permo-w on Thursday September 05, 2024 @06:08PM (#41460776)
maybe in terms of scale they're similar to a state, but then how many people do the biggest businesses have as customers? billions?
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