But Elon just said "with rare exception" right? The truth is that the Empires fought for almost all of their colonies, but not just HK or India which were well known to be "profitable". Moreover, profit to the colonizer and harm to the colonized are independent variables, and you can't treat them as the same one.
@elonmusk@Coinvo If colonialism was so 'unprofitable,' then why did European empires fight brutal wars for centuries just to keep these lands? You just chose two special cases of global shipping hubs, but this was a geographical question here, not a colonial one.🧐