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Re:Why super-smart people may be drawn to a life of crime by api on Monday March 06, 2017 @09:46AM (#13802938)
I find it funny that illegal drugs can be a 12-figure business globally and yet people seem to think it's just street level gang bangers doing this. Now who would have a vested interest in people thinking that? :)

I'm sure there are organizations that would easily make it to the Fortune 100 if they could be listed as such. They're also smart enough to let disposable thugs break the street level laws. Real drug kingpins never physically handle product.

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Re:Why super-smart people may be drawn to a life of crime by paganel on Monday March 06, 2017 @10:18AM (#13803181)
> I'm sure there are organizations that would easily make it to the Fortune 100 if they could be listed as such.

Case in point, a report from a couple of years ago claimed that the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta had a turnover of 53 billion euros, approximately 3.5% if Italy's GDP. This is one of the articles discussing it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/26/ndrangheta-maf...

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