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by nickik 1898 days ago
> 2) Those worst humans would still exist, still try to make money out of the drug business. They would undercut prices

That's why we have all those traffickers and the mafia running super markets and bakeries, they are so good at running business that they can beat any capitalist enterprise.

And if you are simply referring to normal business, that do tax fraud, its the same problem as literally every other business. Are you against all business because people try to avoid taxes?

> are "the worst humans" expected to just stop being the worst humans

No, rather not give them a trade where being the worst nets big profits where there is opportunity for a lot of extra crime because the job is already criminal, so why does it matter.

> Look at cigarettes. It's legal today, but there are still scum exploiting the situation by black market selling probably dangerous tobacco that doesn't go through QA and regulatory checks etc.

What % of the cigarette market is that? Likely less then 0.1%. How many super rich successful black market cigarette millionaires are there?