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The History of the East and West India Company
The Dutch were able to just Stockpile capital in a huge way which allowed them to then turn it into eventually the Stock certificates of the East and West India company. They didn't really have any like settler colonies Well, and I'm sorry and New Amsterdam, but they lost that one well, that's the thing they lost it very early so they couldn't really develop this stuff. But when you're the first or one of the first, you know, like it was the Portuguese to create this Wind up this herdy girdy that pulls humans out of West Africa and into the Caribbean in exchange for fucking molasses and going to Europe for a species like That's got to