I saw this when there were not comments yet, and by the time I had something that could be somewhat constructive, there are a few other references to deep historical roots now. Everybody's got their own interpretation and I guess I'm no different.
What can you expect when the article opens with the same legendary graphic that everybody sees every day on the back of their $2 bills? The Signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Maybe it is never too late to revisit; independence from what, and for whom?
You could say that as a colony, "America" was founded by multinational corporations for the benefit of multinational corporations.
Almost no one else could afford to send ship after ship of "settlers" and return with relatively low-value cargoes long enough to remain solvent. These were mainly "indentured servants" who agreed to farm for the nobility who had been granted the land, until the servants' freedom could eventually be earned, even if such earning had not been completed during each servant's lifetime. This is the foundation of the earliest corporate behavior in North America. Basically under the same paradigm that would lead to auctioning off "passengers" (services) upon arrival, those who had not the wherewithal to pay for passage. In the long run it was probably more lucrative to obtain African passengers with no consideration for any ability to pay for passage, then auction them all off as chattel cargo upon arrival at the conclusion of their itinerary. It was already working about like that to an extent beforehand. Ships cost money and somebody's got to pay for it, multinational corporations are still not all that without quite a few ships being involved.
Regardless, it cost a fortune for corporations of investors to build an economic system from a blank canvas, which by design could give them an inherent advantage compared to what they already had established for centuries overseas.
Those were foreign corporations mainly of the elite, not just anybody could buy in when voyages were known to be the most lucrative.
I guess all that changed when the colonies revolted, states united, and got their own domestic stock exchange.
OTOH I have guessed wrong quite a bit, maybe for the majority of regular citizens, whether of African origin or not, nothing else changed other than which continent the stock exchange is located on.