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Great way to give a lot of money to organized crime
by wlesieutre 3y ago
Great way to give a lot of money to organized crime
- toomuchtodo 3y agoOrganized crime will always exist as long as there is human demand for something illegal, it's how aggressively you manage it (investigate, jail, or in some countries, execute, depending on the crime, measured harm, etc).
- adventured 3y agoOrganized crime at scale only ever exists due to the government manifesting it through a prohibition that shouldn't have been put into place. The organized at scale (beyond just a gang in a neighborhood) aspect of it requires considerable ongoing capital infusion, which you can only get from a sustainable extraction of economy. It's that pocket of black market economy that is always created by government action, without exception. Every large gang operation in the US rides on top of government prohibition or otherwise preys on regressive regulation. The war on drugs being the greatest example in recorded history.
- chris_wot 3y agoThat isn’t happening in Alice Springs.
- SteveNuts 3y agoYou’re right, it’s probably all the surrounding communities.
- richardjam73 3y agoWhat surrounding communities?
- Turing_Machine 3y agoGoogle Maps seems to show a fair number of small settlements in the general area, but not within the city limits of Alice Springs.
- richardjam73 3y agoI'm bad at explaining this. Remote Australia is not like the rest of world. It is not easy to supply these places with goods. Doing so illegally is even more difficult. Those outlying communities are not just relay points in some chain going back to the coastal cities. Like you would get in other places.
- steve76 3y ago[dead]