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Re:Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Silk Road by lenazegher on Sunday May 05, 2013 @12:53PM (#5658951)
>It's rent seeking in the same way that smuggling illegal immigrants is rent seeking.

Smuggling illegal immigrants is not rent seeking. If an illegal-immigrant-smuggling company lobbied the government to tighten immigration controls, that would be rent seeking.

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Re:Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Silk Road by DividesByZero on Monday May 06, 2013 @09:53AM (#5662382)
It's in the interests of the smugglers that tight immigration controls remain in place, just as it's in the interests of Silk Road that regulations on restricted substances remain in place.

They need not lobby directly for these restrictions, they have other organisations that will do that for them.

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