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How did Food Triage lead to The joint-stock corporation?

8 steps · 7 domains · 301,602 years

  1. Food Triagesince the species began · 300,000 BCThe hard-won knowledge of what is safe to eat and how cooking turns poison into food — the difference between a full belly and a fatal mistake.
  2. 有赖于它的是—— 使之可造 ↑
    Control of Fire~1,000,000 BC · 1,000,000 BCThe ability to keep, feed, and eventually start a fire at will — humanity's first external source of energy.
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    Charcoalby ~4,000 BC (as furnace fuel) · 4,000 BCWood baked without air until only nearly-pure carbon remains — a fuel that burns far hotter and cleaner than the wood it came from.
  4. 使之可能 ↓
    Iron Smelting (Bloomery)~1,500 BC · 1,500 BCReducing iron ore to workable metal in a charcoal-fired clay furnace.
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    Navigation~1090 AD (magnetized needle described 1088; compass at sea by ~1119) · 1090 ADThe compass, the chart, and the stars — the toolkit that lets a ship leave sight of land and arrive somewhere on purpose.
  6. 有赖于它的是—— 使之可想 ↑
    Numbers and Geometry~3,400 BC (token accounting) · 3,400 BCWays of counting, calculating, and measuring shapes — the mental tools that turn "some sheep" into "seventeen sheep" and "that field" into "so many paces on each side."
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    Writing~3,200 BC · 3,200 BCMarks that store speech and records outside a human head — memory that survives its owner and travels without a messenger.
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    A bank is a ledger and a bill of exchange is a written promise — banking is a paper institution first and a pile of coins second.

    Banking and credit~1397 (Medici Bank) · 1397 ADAn institution that takes in deposits, lends them out, and moves money between distant cities on paper — turning idle coins into working capital and letting value travel without the metal ever leaving the vault.
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    The corporation industrializes what a bank does — pooling many people's money behind an enterprise — but permanently and in tradable pieces.

    The joint-stock corporation1602 (Dutch East India Company) · 1602 ADA legal "person" that outlives its founders, owned in transferable shares by many investors whose losses are capped at what they put in — a machine for pooling the wealth of strangers behind an enterprise too large and too risky for any of them alone.
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