First publicly traded company in recorded history was the Dutch East India Company, which officially established the Amsterdam stock exchange in sixteen oh two to crowdfund their incredibly risky global spice voyages.

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First publicly traded company in recorded history was the Dutch East India Company, which officially established the Amsterdam stock exchange in sixteen oh two to crowdfund their incredibly risky global spice voyages. By selling fractional ownership shares to everyday citizens, the massive shipping conglomerate could easily finance the construction of heavily armed merchant vessels without bankrupting a single aristocratic investor if a ship sank. This brilliant financial innovation quickly evolved into the largest and most terrifying corporate monopoly on earth, featuring its own private military that aggressively colonized entire sovereign nations for nutmeg. We have spent the last four centuries refining this exact economic model, ensuring that everyday retail investors can passively profit from the brutal corporate exploitation of the global south right from their brokerage accounts