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Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

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The Virginia Company

Why did the british government keep subsidizing and giving sanction to the virginia company, even after it was clear that this is not especially profitable? Why didn't they just like, stoff? That's a really good question. I don't really know if we have a satisfactory answer, because it was so stupid for them to keep doing that. It was such a loss, or so long. Am, so you have to say they were thinking not purely economically. Part of it is, ahte the backers of the virginiaCompany, in sort of classic v c style, when things were going bad, they lied about it,. And theyre burning through their cash.

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