Pirates & Necromancers
When the tea market collapsed, the distributing system that had been put in place and capitalized by the British East India Company turned to the production and selling of opium and the exploitation of the Chinese population that was outside of the colonial system proper. The invention of morphine (1803) and then heroin (1873) carries us to the
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Pirates were so successful because they treated their people well. They were democratic. They trusted one another. And they set up an economically sound system to make sure this would be the case.
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Necromancer - Illustration for the Monster Overhaul
If you have played dark souls, you can see that I got a lot of inspiration from the design of the necromancers that lie in the catacombs. They are simple but they work very well
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The East India Company was the most powerful corporation of all time.
It had an army larger than Great Britain's, and its influence shaped the borders of nations.
So how did a company become stronger than most countries?🧵 https://t.co/HGLjK21x2N
🏴☠️ VCs and founders have always been in the pirate business.
People forget that the origins of (ad)venture capital, the LLC, and joint-stock corporations trace back to privateering.
English privateering syndicates backed captains like Francis Drake with ships, men, funds, etc. Drake had... See more
Almost immediately they trapped and overpowered an enormous Portuguese carrack. She was so laden with Indian piece goods, mostly white calicoes and the famous batiks or ‘pintadoes’ of southern India, that it took six days to unload her.