It's so much more lucrative to just slice the orphaned drug catalog up in a cartel structure. You charge robbery rates for drugs A, C and F and I'll take B, D

It's so much more lucrative to just slice the orphaned drug catalog up in a cartel structure. You charge robbery rates for drugs A, C and F and I'll take B, D and E. We both make lots of money and don't have to worry about each other. Competition assumes sellers don't collaborate and negotiate but they do all the time.