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Originally Posted by whswhs
Just as a note, what Wilson actually said was "For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist." (Per Wikiquotes.) I grant that that could still be a delusion, but the "vice versa" is important: It suggests that Wilson thought that making the US a safer or better place would make his company better off too, even if there wasn't an obvious effect on the profit and loss statement.
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Of course there are plenty of heroic characters that profit by their heroism. Honor Harrington gets promotions, titles, lands, investments, high-placed alliances and money. She did not go into the RMN with that in mind and was happy as a Sphinxian frontierswoman. But that is what she got.