Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s most innovative drug lord

Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by b0tzzzzzzman on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:10PM (#29090317)

>Maximum employment and productivity are the highest economic policy goals.

I am so sick of this simplistic MBA style of thought. It ignores literally, figuratively, and morally the needs of humans who are under the rule of politicians, managers, and investors that simplify things into statments like this.

Most people are so detatched from the actual needs. Do you think if people that drink could socially use meth would be better off while they have paid sex with a legal prostitute high on meth and go back to with the next day to pay their morgage ?

Maybe if we were noy over taxes and living in precarious times .. People would beli3ve they have a future from their effort.

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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by Rastonbury on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:15PM (#29090742)

That assertion is absurd. Policy making is so much more nuanced than maximising economic growth and productivity, look as subsidies and protection of interest groups at economic cost. Tobacco and alcohol are both legal

A lawmaker is not looking at prostitution from an economic lens, they are looking at how their constituents will react with horror at how the representative is enabling what they perceive as vice

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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by hoseja on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:21AM (#29105668)

And why are they perceiving it as a vice? Try looking at religion/morality as a social engineering framework and it's obvious.

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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by naveen99 on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:16PM (#29126132)

Exactly! Thanks.

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