All you need to know to understand how actually-existing crapitalism operates.
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All you need to know to understand how actually-existing crapitalism operates.
(You don't deal with a mafia organization by fining them on a per-offense basis: you deal with them by jailing their leaders, confiscating all their assets, and ruthlessly hunting down all their cronies.)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/115887342621053928
All you need to know to understand how actually-existing crapitalism operates.
(You don't deal with a mafia organization by fining them on a per-offense basis: you deal with them by jailing their leaders, confiscating all their assets, and ruthlessly hunting down all their cronies.)
@cstross And the prospect of that happening? Practically non-existent.
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@cstross And the prospect of that happening? Practically non-existent.
@pzmyers @cstross we had a brief interlude here in Italy where we actually did that. The Mafia responded by literally blowing up the prosecutors involved (famously Giovanni Falcone, whose assassination tore up a whole section of a motorway, and Giovanni Borsellino, whose assassination blew up a a building). This was followed by a negotiation between the government (Silvio Berlusconi was PM at the time) and the Mafia for the State to be less strict in exchange for less killings.