>What makes you feel that economic interests are always the same as political interests? HN is generally bad at understanding that people will willingly forgo

>What makes you feel that economic interests are always the same as political interests? HN is generally bad at understanding that people will willingly forgo some wealth in exchange for political/ideological/religious goals when the forgoing takes any form other than paying more taxes to fund something you approve of. They get it when your example is something they all support like the US fighting a civil war over slavery but when you try to generalize that behavior up a step and then use it to explain the actions of people supporting something they don't agree with you get something like this[1]. [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/patrick-stars-wallet https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/patrick-stars-wallet