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| Topic | Cell phones made drug deals safer, which is why there is less crime |
| TheMikh 06/12/19 11:59:28 AM #11: | Sackgurl posted... wow. I wonder what implications that would hold for places like silk road. did we perhaps increase violent crime by bringing it down? silk road improved the safety of purchasers and sellers alike (all deliveries were by mail, typically from false addresses, to addresses that were not those of the buyers themselves like po boxes, or better, abandoned houses, eliminating face-to-face dealings), and the trend towards purity due to feedback also resulted in less undesirable consequences from products being cut with other substances to increase profits narconomics went into detail about how it significantly "restructured" how drugs were distributed that is to say it effectively challenged the conventional structure of somewhat isolated local nodes (united only by suppliers, perhaps) of individuals/entities of questionable repute and product quality with quasi-monopolistic tendencies due to some combination of availability and reputation (tl;dr: the neighborhood dealer buying god knows what from god knows where), and replaced it with a true market where suppliers had to compete to offer the highest quality goods at the lowest prices --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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