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Double counting

There's no difference between 100 single-use vehicles, each with a 1 tonne escape tower, and 100 launches of a reusable vehicle, with a 1 tonne tower.

(But if you eject it past Max Q, then you need a new one each launch, but the idea still holds...)

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