• mazdak
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    1 year ago

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    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      But then what keeps the mercenaries from just :owned: them and supplanting them directly? Cash? Cause eventually, they're going to realize they can make more money by just removing the intermediary

      • machinegobrrrr [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        The show Deadwood shows some interesting example for this. Since Deadwood wasn't part of USA yet, they didn't have US law force present. Capitalist Hearst gets his pvt merc Pinkertons and proceed to bulldoze all the local petit boug establishments