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Re:Just Be Rich by busterarm on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:43AM (#26792832)
Banking, at the level of being the financier of nations, was a global industry then as it is now. Many of those people at the time were British or American and a number of them died on that boat.
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Re:Just Be Rich by enkid on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:18PM (#26795684)
How does having extra bankers stop someone from assassinating an archduke, Austria from sending an ultimatum, or Russia from supporting Serbia? I don't see it.
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Re:Just Be Rich by ameister14 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:44AM (#26793917)
"A number of them" is an interesting way to say two.
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Re:Just Be Rich by busterarm on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:54AM (#26794083)
To be fair, the alternative presented by the comment I responded to was zero.

Also we're talking 2 out of maybe 6-10 people (and their families/heirs traveling with them)? Not like 2 out of thousands.

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Re:Just Be Rich by ameister14 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:50PM (#26796279)
No, we're talking about 2 out of hundreds. George H. Burr & Co, the Morgans, Henry Goldman, Samuel Sachs and their families, the list goes on and that's just NY - the banking families were numerous.
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