 So a couple of things that come up in the history of capitalism, and I don't think it's really relevant for what we call capitalism, but it comes up a lot. And I wanted to know if you'd looked into these and had any thoughts, and that's kind of the mercantilist stuff like the big trading companies like the East India Trading Company or the Hudson's Bay Company, that kind of owned territories they were in and they, they were private companies, but they had their militaries they invaded countries they did all these crazy things and I'm kind of the related thing that I was thinking about was the opium wars, where England forced China to accept the opium trade. So it's like, yes we have the right to trade what we want in your country, which is a very strange idea. So, yeah, so I'm not sure what the question is. So I just wanted to get your thoughts on this whole mercantilism and those what are considered companies in a sense by a lot of people. And they are, you know, they're just companies that were granted monopolies by governments that were assigned responsibilities by governments and then, and then in a sense government turned a blind eye to these companies violating individual rights on a massive scale certainly the West Indies company in India and so on. There are historical mistake. They happened obviously but it's kind of sad because partially they gave markets a bad name and they get capitalism bad name, even though it's not capitalism we know that a lot of the rest of the world doesn't They did bring kind of Western civilization or certain ideas of Western civilization, Western education, Western technology, Western knowledge to the far reaches of the earth and some of the some of the cultures that gained that benefited from it, although again I'm not sure they benefited as much as they also lost so it wasn't a voluntary trade obviously one culture imposed itself on the other. So, so I think, I think it's a, it was probably inevitable that it would happen because it was not a lot of understanding of freedom free markets capitalism any of that back then. The West was kind of just trying to figure stuff out as they went along. They didn't have a good understanding of economics this is before Adam Smith this is before a lot of the great economists wrote and taught and and and we gained an understanding of what was going on. So, it's a period of time that is very mixed where, and a lot of those companies like the disappeared, or at least shrunk dramatically, once the monopoly power was taken away from them that that is once they were allowed to properly with other companies that were established under freedom to compete against them. So, I think that's what I have to say about them I'm sure there's more to say, I'll show just on that. What am I missing, I think it's related to the idea to a colonialism, like in academia like the biggest crime in the world is colonialism. I never say what's wrong with colonialism. And the thing that's wrong is that they didn't give the people the rights that they should have in the countries they went to. Yeah, but you let it come to the US and given people rights. No problem. Sure. But and of course, but it's more complicated than that because historically, they didn't have the concept of rights and historically, they didn't have rights in their own country so what were they giving So the whole approach to judging history from the perspective of knowledge, full knowledge is ridiculous. Right, you have to judge history and based on the context of the time. And they want no rights there was no concept of rights there wasn't this idea of rights. They were struggling to figure out what to do. They discovered new land they discovered, you know they went to India they discovered the stuff. They thought there was a lot of potential in India if they sent, they established a company that was responsible for trade and established a beachhead dad, and then there were problems in India and they couldn't secure the trade So they allowed the company to have mercenaries that, you know, and since the troops and then it kept getting out of hand but it wasn't at no point that they sit down and say colonialism. It's a good thing bad thing. What does it mean. How do we deal with it, you know what are rights, it should we give them right should we. All of that context comes later, looking backwards. It can't be there in the 18th century it just doesn't exist the language is happening. These kind of ideas now you ready in the late 18th century is starting to get critics of colonialism critics of these monopolies, Adam Smith, and others and they responded faster to the critics. But the idea that they had a fully formed model view. And then they went over there and they just chose to be evil. It's modern historian exposed reading it's these are complicated things for a people that for people who did not know much better did not know much more. Right. I think one of the great examples of the historical context is Columbus. Yeah, I mean Columbus came over the world and then treated people poorly. But like how are the people treated back in Spain in Portugal, and the answer is poorly, right. And the reason he treated them for this because religion, which nobody ever says nobody plays religion for it. So, yes, context, we started off the program with context it's all about context. You have to have the proper historical context to be able to judge these things and to be able to put a proper estimation on them. Yeah, it would be great if you did a whole show on this. I think it'd be an interesting topic. Yeah, good. Good. We can go to that. 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