Hundreds of years before there were globe-spanning monopolies like Meta and Google, there was the Hudson's Bay Company — one of the earliest and most powerful North American enterprises. Using the myth of "mutually beneficial exchange," HBC began pilfering the indigenous nations who called North America home in the relentless pursuit of furs to sell back in Europe. Though HBC executives talked up a handful of strategies like summer trapping restrictions, their best intentions fell away to the endless drive for profit, instead going for policies like "fur deserts." Operating for hundreds of years, HBC has caused irreversible damage to […]