Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Shipwrecks and Australia - The Dutch VOC, Batavia and SS Xantho at the WA Shipwreck Museum!" video.

  1. The VOC only started paying dividends in 1633, hence the invention of the stock exchange because the often very ordinary shareholders couldn't wait 31 years on ROI. It was more about growth and taking the war for independence overseas to Spain's ally and therefore enemy Portugal and block their important source of money and therefore war. Little fortunes were made and for the Dutch Republic it was peanuts anyway because they did most of all European trade and that was much bigger.
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