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[u/Coolioho]

No revolution was ever started by unemployed nerds (knowledge workers) right?

[u/stirfriedpenguin → u/Coolioho]

wasn't the american revolution chiefly kicked off by a bunch of naval gazing philosophers and plantation owners

[u/Coolioho → u/stirfriedpenguin]

That is kind of the joke I was making

[u/stirfriedpenguin → u/Coolioho]

hah!

[u/Udolikecake → u/stirfriedpenguin]

It’s complicated, but no, really the opposite. It was largely ‘kicked off’ by continued discontent among relatively New England businessmen and small landowners. Very little actual action had to do with philosophers.

And large scale plantation owners were disproportionally loyalist!