Lee Daniel Crocker responded:
>In what way is it "difficult" to simply stop paying a private business?
>If you're going to raise objections to A-C, how about raising some that
>might actually exist instead of making them up? Russian mafias believe
>in territoriality; they are not a free market.
Huh? You think russian mafias are ideologues who would turn down a
chance to make a buck if it went against their religion? Come on!
If they thought they could make a buck by sharing territory they
would. And the expense of not buying protection from the only
available protection agency should be obvious.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/