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Read more: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-26-mn-43149-story.html
TIL during the Golden Age of Piracy, many pirates set up social safety net programs such as disability payments for injuries sustained while at sea, as well as life insurance to be paid to a pirate’s family if they died.
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I didn’t know Napster was so dangerous.
They would also elect their captains democratically
Arrrhhh! Need to update me Pirate insurance!
I wonder if there deductibles were 1/2 a months pay?
Jack Sparrow was way ahead of his time
Lmao at pirates having better social services than the country I live in
I think we can probably find a more recent look into this topic, can’t we?
The last thorough study of this can’t just be 2 authors from an LA times article written in 1998.
Up to “whilst at sea” I thought we were talking about internet pirates.
https://youtu.be/3YFeE1eDlD0 thank me later
Lol – at first read I thought this was referring to the late 90’s / early 00’s.
A bunch of famous ones also got together and took over Nassau to form a pirate republic.
Like the Avengers
YAAAHAAARRR WE HAVE BENEFITS AND 401k WITH COMPOUND INTEREST YOUNG LASS
Pirates were based
Article says “sometimes” they were paid for injuries and deaths. I’m betting the common practice was if you were badly wounded or killed, you got tossed over the side and forgotten rather quickly.
Jack Sparrow sent me over to settle his medical debt.
Davy Jones: Did he now?
Edward Kenway didn’t tell me this.
When literal pirates are more moral than your government
That’s the biggest crime of them all right there. If anything, they hung the pirates for this.
Just a bit of an exaggeration.
Is this where the term safety net comes from?
Lol. Ships sit off the LA coast and LA’s like, look, pirates took care of pirates…. 👀 see those ships over there? You could be the first pirates this year, and you could do it, and do it right
TIL Pirates have more human compassion than modern-day business owners & CEOs
Piracy was a rather noble profession in spite of their tyranny. Ships were ruled by election, they had laws, gambling was banned, drinking on shift was banned, all treasure was split after the captain and quartermaster had their 25% each, a raided ship was to be left in good enough position (and provisions left untouched) for it to return to the nearest port.
Its almost as if pirates got a bad rap in history books written by international business powers.
Better than Amazon
Being a pirate was dangerous. Need to lure in bodies with guarantees for their family/future. Reminds me of today’s occupational market in the US.
Arw, I’m still selling those policies, me maitee!
When I read the first line I had a flood of memories and nostalgia for the early 2000’s.
Plus the option for 401R and booty sharing.
They had set rates of compensation for loss of an eye, a hand, a leg. Losing parts on your left side was worth less though.
the golden age of piracy was 1680-1725 and was supposedly ushered in when the french navy in the caribbean sank
“Last month, Clifford and a crew that included Maxwell Kennedy, son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, uncovered what they say is an even bigger find: a fleet of up to 18 elaborate French warships and pirate vessels that went down the night of May 3, 1678, after hitting coral reefs off Venezuela’s coast.
If confirmed, it would be only the second documented discovery of a pirate shipwreck in the world. Clifford expects it to yield a treasure trove of artifacts including swords, pistols, muskets, pottery, gold, medical supplies, navigational instruments and bronze cannons.
The disaster near Venezuela decimated the French navy in the Caribbean Sea and helped usher in the “Golden Age” of pirating, Kinkor said. The famed era of maritime lawlessness lasted from 1680 to 1725; at its height, 10,000 pirates roamed the seas.”
i thought this was gonna be about Kazaa or winMX!
My brain immediately went to 2002-2008.
I wish employers looked after their employees as well as pirates did 400 years ago
I was so damn confused for like 10s until I realised that they are taking about the other piracy
I know it feels like it was a long time ago and it’s hard to relate to, but life and business were a lot more like it is today than you realize.
They also had gay marriage.
When everyone making the decisions has the same stake and leverage egalitarianism tends to follow.
No wonder nobody liked them
This article claims the whydah is the only discovered pirate shipwreck? And finding this new site would be the second? How is this possible when Blackbeard’s ship has been identified off of North Carolina where he scuttled it?
It’s very similar to the pensions our road pirates have today.
Pirates had better health insurance and social care than the USA. 😲
Because many of them were hired by governments!!