Oddbean new post about login | logout Was it really so great to fund the massacre on the Banda people though... 🤔. Their only "crime" was to insist on selling their own nutmeg to anyone interested rather than granting the Dutch a monopoly
O no, the voc plundered and ravaged the colonies, no rethorics there. Amsterdams beautiful centre has been build on the colony exploitations. The blood diamonds of their time. We have been raised with the heroic stories, but reality was, as always, much more grim