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The article completly ignores the fact the goods that were sold are highly addictive and quick to build tolerance these combined properties are very rare and re
by fooza 10y ago
The article completly ignores the fact the goods that were sold are highly addictive and quick to build tolerance these combined properties are very rare and really helped the syndicate success.
- lithos 10y agoGambling, nicotine, alcohol, and porn. Maybe toss in videogames.
- mikro2nd 10y agoTwitter, Facebook,...
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- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoHacker News .........
- silvestrov 10y agoThe article doesn't spell it out, but it does say "Can’t live without once they discover them". Hard drugs are excellent at this.
- jwdunne 10y agoElasticity of demand. I was just reading a piece about mental models and how having one or two is like the old hammer nail problem. I think this article suffers of that a bit along with generalising to a set of principles anyone can agree with. What works when your product becomes a life or death necessity to people will be much different than what works else where. Run your business like a business that sells your product. If you're selling cocaine, you should probably run it like a drug lord. If enterprise software, run it like an enterprise software company. Maybe there's a case again what I'm saying with disruption but let's be honest: running dental practice like an actual drug lord will probably get you struck off. An example: "Run your business like a cockroach. You're the head: work to make it run without your presence." A template: "Run your business like a <type>. <insert positive attribute generalised from type>"
- joe_the_user 10y agoReally, the article is filled with claim that are just wrong on their face. > "Create a Need" Ridiculous. Only in moron anti-drug adds do drug dealers "push" on users. While there's a bit of innovation like all businesses, most of drug dealing is fulfilling a need others won't fill. > "Embrace Risk" Another ridiculous claim. Drug dealing starts out extremely dangerous and almost all the dealers' strategies are about reducing risk - high security, disposable underlings, etc. A few dealers might "embrace risk" but once they've done all the "hard work" of reducing risk by being ordinary paranoid drug-dealers. Moreover, it fails to mention important bullet points. -- Establish a patron. Most drug dealers operate by corrupt authorities on one level or another turning a blind eye. With so much money involved, the temptation is constant. -- Eliminate the competition. This is a well known and important tactic. And with these two points added, we see dealers operate with the tactics of other monopolistic businesses - Hollywood or Microsoft in the 90s. Within that framework, they are businesses and make ordinary business decisions as well as decisions about who they need to kill to keep the racket going (and the degree of need to kill varies from area to area).
- hluska 10y agoI'm a sample of one, but I found it easier to quit smoking permanently than to spend one month without using a single Google product...
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- binarray2000 10y agoThe article as well completely ignores the fact that the Medellín Cartel has had a "strategic partner". Interestingly, the name of that partner is often connected with drugs. It is the CIA (no... not the Cocaine Importing Agency but the Central Intelligence Agency): http://fair.org/extra/media-censor-cia-ties-with-medellin-drug-cartel/ http://fair.org/extra/media-censor-cia-ties-with-medellin-dr...