[gnfargbl]

The current groups, sure, but the existence of a functioning market tends to bring in more participants. Or to put it another way, there are plenty of smart people in the world who found themselves born in a less-than-ideal country and are willing to solve their problems through crime.

The only sustainable solution is to make crime no longer pay. Nothing else will work.

[clayhacks]

The other solution is making those “less than ideal” countries have more attractive legal economic opportunities so that crime isn’t an attractive alternative.

Basically making crime no longer pay best

[naldb]

That requires cultural changes through a timescale of generations, so it’s not a feasible solution.

[Razengan]

Or let those smart people easily move to little-bit-more-ideal countries.

[anonym29]

Fun fact: emigration laws in despotic third-world shitholes ruled by autocrats aren't the same emigration laws that privileged westerners enjoy.