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It's probably Isabellenhütte, established in 1482 in Germany ( https://www.isabellenhuette.de/en/company/innovation-by-trad... )
Who currently produce components that go into Teslas.
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Who currently produce components that go into Teslas.
I was originally looking for "old companies that currently work in tech", but even their original industry of copper smelting was pretty high tech for the 15th century.
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Oh no, owning property and having a place in the community. What a nightmare.
Or you can read it as "social pressure to do something for your entire life that you don't really want to do."
But at the same time, for many people, what they want to do is to carry on a legacy and contribute to something larger than themselves. A culture that forces all young people to build from scratch denies those opportunities just as surely as a culture that forces everyone to follow in their parent' footsteps denies opportunities to start afresh.
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No, that’s just a literal description of how these old Japanese businesses pass themselves along for centuries.
Oddly enough that's also how roman emperors handled dynastic succession[0]. In a world with 40% child mortality, it was more of a sure thing than gambling on having a biological heir. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_ancient_Rome
I don't think any tech companies will ever survive that long.
A small, geographically bound family business like this is one thing, but we should pay more attention to what kind of creatures we're creating in the long run.
An LLC is a very useful legal fiction, but more and more we're seeing the effects of allowing virtually unbounded, private for profit organizations.
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I was originally looking for "old companies that currently work in tech", but even their original industry of copper smelting was pretty high tech for the 15th century.
Maybe let's do it in two classes: oldest information-managing tech company and oldest mechanical tech company?