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I like the analogy. Whereas the East India Company fostered trade and tax-farming for the benefit of shareholders back home, Turbo America has taken it all to a new level: full spectrum extractive commerce (the commercialisation of everything from the human genome to enetertainment) applied to the entire planet with the onetime homeland subjected to equality with the colonies and the elites of client states fully integrated into the Turbo American oligarchy.

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Honestly I’m reading Lenin more lately lol

Or that over invoked Austrian “Of course something must be done for the workers.”

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