The east India trading company literally invented modern day capitalism. Corporations like that did not exist up until that point.
Edit: to be clear it was the Dutch East India company that invented it but the British perfected it.
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Scale matters.
Squid guy's atrocities were always limited to what he could do with a Kraken and a single ship.
EIC turned exploitation into an organized system that empowered hundreds of vessels and spread the suffering to entire continents.
edit: grammar