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Originally Posted by Ethersync
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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No... it is still an example of a free market within itself, free of any regs... nobody says a drug must have X within it, meet X safety standards, sell for X amount, nobody is speculating on future supply, the entire system is free from what we have defined throughout this thread as various regs, manipulation and intervention of the actual market.
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Originally Posted by Ethersync
...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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Other than they were here before it was illegal as well. Regs do not come before the monopoly, they come after the monopoly has happened and abuse has started.
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Originally Posted by Ethersync
They are controlling the entire market! This is market intervention at it's most extreme.
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Sure... if you want to believe it's market intervention, then have at it... of course they have no market to regulate, no part of what they've done is anything like any market intervention in the world or that is being discussed, but whatever.