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> I think the concern was that we're just replacing illegal cartels with legal cartels. Just like how legalised gambling just made it legal for the mobs to run
by yardie 13y ago
> I think the concern was that we're just replacing illegal cartels with legal cartels.
Just like how legalised gambling just made it legal for the mobs to run casinos?
Except that's not what happened. Investors came in, bringing real managers, real security, and real regulation. They turned the seedy, Las Vegas strip into Disneyland. And those old mob run casinos, you'll find their demolition videos on youtube.
- glesica 13y agoI didn't say the methods used by the new cartels had to be identical to those used by the old. I also never said anything about criminals. You can have a perfectly law-abiding, non-violent cartel that is, nonetheless, bad for society.