Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned?
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
And then the State Department starts flooding Amazon warehouses with drugs and guns to ruin the co-op and make people nostalgic for the good ol days when the Bezos junta was around to control the gangs.
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or we could just end the prohibition of drugs because it does nothing beneficial for society and destroy the black market instead of doing bullshit like “decriminalizing” which doesn’t do any good because the black market still flourishes
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
There’s always going to be a black market unless you want the drug trade totally unregulated. No drug standards, no age limits, no quality control, just a wild West free for all.
ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re talking about a gray market, like in legal cannabis states where prices are still high and there are ridiculous barriers preventing those who were growing cannabis illegaly before “legalization”(or rather prohibition 2.0) from entering the industry so they sell at a lower price and undercut the market. But these people are not multi million dollar cartels and in 97 cases out of 100 cartels have already moved out of the cannabis trade or they have taken steps to enter the legal trade. Im talking about a commercial environment where violence is not needed to protect the producer and their profits, the main idea behind prohibition is this enforcing of abstinence only moral Puritanism built on religious fundamentalism and racism/ white supremacy. There is definitely a way to undercut the entire black market but it is almost impossible within a capitalistic economy the leas regulated the more unfeasible it is.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Won’t the US just declare you a narco-state and sanctions you to death?