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by patrickk 1753 days ago
Britain subsequently benefited from transforming itself from an imperial power to a financial power. Good documentary on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uM2cdhfAGA

This is the reason that there's so many rich Russians knocking about e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/p83ljc/offshore_adv...

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They were a financial power long before. It kinda came with the territory, being a global empire.

They did well to hold on to it, though.

How can you look at the history of the British trade companies and not see how intertwined imperialism and what we today call 'finance' are?