The east India trading company literally invented modern day capitalism. Corporations like that did not exist up until that point.

Edit: to be clear it was the Dutch East India company that invented it but the British perfected it.

"Capitalism bad, also, please buy your favourite merch from the disney store!"

Scale matters.

Squid guy's atrocities were always limited to what he could do with a Kraken and a single ship.

EIC turned exploitation into an organized system that empowered hundreds of vessels and spread the suffering to entire continents.

edit: grammar