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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

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