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Named after the Dutch East India Company. This attack uses a 400 year old financial technology invented in the early 17th century, called a Limited Liability Corporation. A technology first created to institutionalize the process of capturing land and people and turning their bodies into money. But the results of this early form of data processing concentrated power into the hands of its shareholders and to its shareholders alone. Who of course acted in their own self interest. Creating an imbalance which led to the subjugation and extermination of entire people groups around the globe. | Named after the Dutch East India Company. This attack uses a 400 year old financial technology invented by Dutch merchants in the early 17th century, called a Limited Liability Corporation. A technology first created to institutionalize the process of capturing land and people and turning their bodies into money. But the results of this early form of data processing concentrated power into the hands of its shareholders and to its shareholders alone. Who of course acted in their own self interest. Creating an imbalance which led to the subjugation and extermination of entire people groups around the globe. | ||
The act of placing Grassland's processing power and data into the hands of corporations is an attack that reestablishes a colonialist system of capturing land and people and turning their bodies into money. | |||
Revision as of 14:08, 12 December 2020
Asymmetry Attacks
The VOC
Named after the Dutch East India Company. This attack uses a 400 year old financial technology invented by Dutch merchants in the early 17th century, called a Limited Liability Corporation. A technology first created to institutionalize the process of capturing land and people and turning their bodies into money. But the results of this early form of data processing concentrated power into the hands of its shareholders and to its shareholders alone. Who of course acted in their own self interest. Creating an imbalance which led to the subjugation and extermination of entire people groups around the globe.
The act of placing Grassland's processing power and data into the hands of corporations is an attack that reestablishes a colonialist system of capturing land and people and turning their bodies into money.