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** While we're on medieval examples, we also have [[The Knights Templar]] and [[The Knights Hospitallers]], military orders formed during [[The Crusades]]. The Knights Hospitallers, for a long time in its history, controlled the Island of Malta under the name of the Knights of Malta, and the Knights Templar created the European banking system and only fell because of debtors who, rather than pay back their debts, had members of the Knights Templar killed for witchcraft, heathenry, or whatever reasons they could think up. While the Knights Hospitallers/Knights of Malta may strictly be described as a nationless state (as would the Hanseatic League, for that matter), the Knights Templar was the first multinational banking corporation, first banking corporation at all, and essentially defined what a multinational corporation was for the world.

* Partial aversion: Berkshire Hathaway, it is a $143 billion-a-year conglomerate that is involved in everything from insurance to textiles, yet the CEO, Warren Buffett only makes about $100,000 a year, and plans to give most of his money to charity.

 

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