| Really, the article is filled with claim that are just wrong on their face. > "Create a Need"
Ridiculous. Only in moron anti-drug adds do drug dealers "push" on users. While there's a bit of innovation like all businesses, most of drug dealing is fulfilling a need others won't fill. > "Embrace Risk"
Another ridiculous claim. Drug dealing starts out extremely dangerous and almost all the dealers' strategies are about reducing risk - high security, disposable underlings, etc. A few dealers might "embrace risk" but once they've done all the "hard work" of reducing risk by being ordinary paranoid drug-dealers. Moreover, it fails to mention important bullet points. -- Establish a patron.
Most drug dealers operate by corrupt authorities on one level or another turning a blind eye. With so much money involved, the temptation is constant. -- Eliminate the competition.
This is a well known and important tactic. And with these two points added, we see dealers operate with the tactics of other monopolistic businesses - Hollywood or Microsoft in the 90s. Within that framework, they are businesses and make ordinary business decisions as well as decisions about who they need to kill to keep the racket going (and the degree of need to kill varies from area to area). |