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Aren't consumers technically voluntary, if we assume no one's getting addicted to heroin at gunpoint?
by losteric 9y ago
Aren't consumers technically voluntary, if we assume no one's getting addicted to heroin at gunpoint?
- tomrod 9y agoMost of the time. Some counterexamples exist (e.g. buy from the limited healthcare options available to you or be fined [via tax]).
- losteric 9y agoIn general, sure, but the context of this thread is drug cartels. Their unregulated businesses use capital to aggressively expand into other markets, destroy competition, and oppose democratic regulations - behaving similarly to legal capitalist corporations. Though, granted, they conquer with guns and gangsters instead of legal loopholes and lawyers.