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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Yes, WITHIN ITSELF it is, it 100% is... stop being so shortsighted.
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In a microcosm there are similarities, in that drug dealing is a business. But it's illegal and that changes everything.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
[drug dealing] has pockets of power that fully control the market/price, etc... a monopoly, without any gov doing anything.
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...except making it illegal. If the production and distribution of "illegal" drugs were legal in the US these monopolies would not exist.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Correct... thats social intervention by force, they have no market to regulate, they never had a free market start up, then get regulated, they did not setup rules that squash issues/problems related to corps/gov intervention, etc or create them within a market that the world economy actually operates on or even for themselves.
So, yeah.... seriously, not related.
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They are controlling the entire market! This is market intervention at it's most extreme.