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> if you go as far as to imagine the Mexican cartels being (eventually) legitimate businesses, the strong competition between them would not subside, so they wo
by newacct583 6y ago
> if you go as far as to imagine the Mexican cartels being (eventually) legitimate businesses, the strong competition between them would not subside, so they would still fight each other
Exactly. Just look at the much larger market contested by the Apple/Google blood feud for an example!
This doesn't actually happen. The expense of running a private army makes a firm catastrophically non-competetive vs. the new flood of now-legal competitors selling at a much lower price.
- racnid 6y agoI wonder how that works in a world where more than a few competitors are willing to chainsaw apart the upstarts.
- HPsquared 6y agoIt'd be a brave new world of businesses trying to fly under the radar and evade 'prosecution', I guess!
- eru 6y agoKeep in mind that the actual drug producers are just as much victims of the drug cartels as anyone else. Legalising the production of drugs would make it so that they could, at least in theory, turn to the police for help.