If that had occurred during the days of the East India Company’s global activities it would never have become the British East India Company. When over 40% of British MPs were investors, joint shareholders and it’s protectors.
When corporations use their vast wealth to distort or seize control of the political process, they have ceased to operate within the constraints established at their creation. They are in violation of their own corporate charters and should be shuttered or sold off.
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