Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "The Rise and Fall Of The East India Company" video.

The anglo Dutch wars were started by the British because they couldn't compete with the Dutch in the free European trade, no one could. Ironically they claim the Dutch got rich from colonialism, while for the Dutch is was just a tiny cherry on a huge cake. Still it was capitalism that made both of them rich, first the Dutch who brought it over to England.
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Not true, the VOC had the Dutch monopoly from the Cape eastwards, the WIC had the Dutch monopoly on the Atlantic. It did an expedition to find the North passage to the East-Indies for which they hired Henry Hudson. European trade wast still much, much bigger and that was dominated by the Dutch merchant fleet consisting of thousands of companies that had nothing to do with the VOC.
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Nothing ironic. The States-General already existed before the the Dutch Republic's DOI and the States as provincial parliaments without having a common assembly go back to the 13th century. The English support for the Dutch revolt was half arsed and two faced, and queen Elizabeth kicking the Dutch sea beggars out of English ports and taking back her beloved non valeur Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester where both great turning points in the Dutch war against the Spanish Empire. Lucily for the English, the Dutch had already blocked the Spanish Armada from actually invading England.
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It was still peanuts. No year in history had the VOC making more money for the Dutch Republic than the good old herring fishery. The Dutch merchant fleet in Europe was a 100 times bigger than that of the whole VOC.
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@jonathankerr4859 Another YT myth, all based on a dodgy calculation by a Canadian media company. We know it was bigger than the British East India Company, we also know that peak VOC brought in less money to the Dutch Republic than the good old herring fishery. We also know it's less than 200 merchant ships was futile compared to the enormous Dutch merchant fleet in Europe.
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@jonathankerr4859 I'm just putting it in perspective. Besides the dodgy calculations by a questionable source that is taken for a fact all over history videos on YT, the special thing about it was that it was all put in one company with a Dutch monopoly. If we decide now that all Dutch trade with Ireland would be done by a single company, that would be a huge company too. The VOC didn't compete with the tens of thousands of individual merchants because it had a monopoly East of the Cape in today's SA, and it was not competitive in the European trade because of operation costs. Bigger ships with lots of guns and bigger crew, double planked, they were specialized in one year journeys with valuable cargo, not suited for shipping wheat from Poland to Sweden at competitive prices.
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No, it wasn't. It was differently bad. The Dutch Republic already had had the first half of their Golden Age before profits from WIC or VOC came in, both started for war reasons, to protect what you take for granted now. Since you are enjoying freedom of religion, freedom of speech and print, upward social mobility and modern capitalism, citizenship in a nation state, free trade, the Dutch Golden Age was golden for you too.
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