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Hundreds is a bit of a hyperbole here. We've only had modern corporate America for maybe the last 150 years. Pre-industrial companies didn't have as much power or clout as large behemoth enterprises do today.


We’ve only had the Internet for a few decades, but that doesn’t mean we can’t draw parallels between the dot-com bubble and what happened before, or that we shouldn’t have learned from the past.

Consider the Amsterdam banking crisis of 1763, which some have compared to the 2008 financial crisis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_banking_crisis_of_...




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