• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Quite a few supporters for independence in America’s revolutionary war against England were quite wealthy, and stood to make very good money with an independent US. Hancock was one of them.

    I don’t know if I’d say that was the entire reason for the war of independence, but I think it was substantial enough that we can consider it an example in this case.

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      10 months ago

      no, it is not, just because there was an economic incentive for some people during the revolution doesn’t mean that it is comparable, if you want comparable, imagine if the of the richest Italians had replaced many of the American cannons with wooden fakes

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        10 months ago

        I think it’s somewhat comparable since the economic incentive was heavily skewed towards leadership vs the common person.

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          10 months ago

          no, because the leadership actually did the fighting, unlike musk who just shut off service when daddy Putin asked him to