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    4 days ago

    Much much earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#History

    Middle-ages at the latest at least in writing, but the idea of an employer we know of today probably goes way further back. People have owned and bought people longer than cities have had walls.

    The ability for an individual to be able to fire someone is not really compatible with leftism. Employers don’t really desire unions, ya know?