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many layers of middle men each taking a fat cut is an indicator of huge inefficiencies in the given sector of the market and a sign that that sector is ripe for

by trhway 7y ago

many layers of middle men each taking a fat cut is an indicator of huge inefficiencies in the given sector of the market and a sign that that sector is ripe for disruption.

jfk13 7y ago
Your new startup is Assassination As A Service?
- Shish2k 7y ago
  Uber for Murders
  - buckminster 7y ago
    The self-driving division have got that covered.
- booleandilemma 7y ago
  Obligatory onion article: https://www.theonion.com/popular-new-amazon-service-just-comes-to-your-house-and-1819917496/amp https://www.theonion.com/popular-new-amazon-service-just-com...
crimsonalucard 7y ago
The entire finance industry in the united states is like this.
onetimemanytime 7y ago
True, but when he offered $250+K he must've figured that killing him is worth it that amount. Considering that you cannot put in on eBay or Fiverr he took the offer. Why does it take much to kill e person in China, cameras and surveillance ...?
- _-___________-_ 7y ago
  I would imagine it's not a particularly efficient market. The person offering the contract likely had no particular way to discover the correct price to pay, and there is a high risk in offering the contract (the recipient of the offer might go to the police) so he just aimed high.
CapricornNoble 7y ago
Just seems like he was going about this ALL wrong. US Spec ops guys moonlight as "security contractors" basically doing assassination missions in Yemen for ~$25,000/month[1][2]. You mean to tell me a Chinese guy with $250,000 to throw around couldn't find a recently-retired Chinese Special Operator to do this job reliably? I would think that anyone with that much money would have at least SOME Communist Party connections or People's Liberation Army connections. Hmmmm, unless his intended target was the one with such "protection".......that would make more sense actually.... maybe nobody in good standing with the CCP would take on such a contract, hence the above-market-rate compensation offered, and the fact that only unreliable, desperate, two-faced idiots accepted the job. [1]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-assassination-us-yemen-uae-spear-golan-dahlan https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_Operations_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_Operations_Group

by trhway 7y ago

many layers of middle men each taking a fat cut is an indicator of huge inefficiencies in the given sector of the market and a sign that that sector is ripe for disruption.

jfk13 7y ago

Your new startup is Assassination As A Service?

Shish2k 7y ago
Uber for Murders
- buckminster 7y ago
  The self-driving division have got that covered.
booleandilemma 7y ago
Obligatory onion article: https://www.theonion.com/popular-new-amazon-service-just-comes-to-your-house-and-1819917496/amp https://www.theonion.com/popular-new-amazon-service-just-com...

crimsonalucard 7y ago

The entire finance industry in the united states is like this.

onetimemanytime 7y ago

True, but when he offered $250+K he must've figured that killing him is worth it that amount. Considering that you cannot put in on eBay or Fiverr he took the offer. Why does it take much to kill e person in China, cameras and surveillance ...?

_-___________-_ 7y ago
I would imagine it's not a particularly efficient market. The person offering the contract likely had no particular way to discover the correct price to pay, and there is a high risk in offering the contract (the recipient of the offer might go to the police) so he just aimed high.

CapricornNoble 7y ago

Just seems like he was going about this ALL wrong. US Spec ops guys moonlight as "security contractors" basically doing assassination missions in Yemen for ~$25,000/month[1][2]. You mean to tell me a Chinese guy with $250,000 to throw around couldn't find a recently-retired Chinese Special Operator to do this job reliably? I would think that anyone with that much money would have at least SOME Communist Party connections or People's Liberation Army connections. Hmmmm, unless his intended target was the one with such "protection".......that would make more sense actually.... maybe nobody in good standing with the CCP would take on such a contract, hence the above-market-rate compensation offered, and the fact that only unreliable, desperate, two-faced idiots accepted the job. [1]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-assassination-us-yemen-uae-spear-golan-dahlan https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_Operations_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_Operations_Group