aaronrules33 t1_j8lyc7o wrote
Reply to comment by Atypicalicious in Once manufacturing moves almost entirely into space and the workers want drugs, gambling and prostitution and wanted criminals on Earth can escape to space, the solar system away from gravity wells will become largely lawless. Who will do the policing and how? by [deleted]
I’m confused how in your version of events it’s seemingly easy for general miscreants to exploit space-based infrastructure yet impossible for nations or corporations to have any control.
Are these guys just grabbing onto the sides of supply rockets and holding their breath? The entities establishing these installations, be they public or private, have the ability to do so but lack the capability to staff or secure them?
Explain how these vagabonds get to space and/or these various places, and then explain why any form of security force couldn’t do so at equal or more efficient means. I think that’s the biggest hang up with the whole idea.
Atypicalicious t1_j8lyivr wrote
This is weird, rich weirdos would get away from prying eyes like they do now. And anyone with money could go. Crime pays, we’re not talking about street people but professional criminals.
Leviacule t1_j8m0unv wrote
This is when you just give up trying to define others as criminals and accept that if you can't solve the suffering no matter how hard you try, then the suffering might as well just be accepted.
Who gives a fuck about drugs, and anything "slave like" will go unregulated like it does in the poorest of areas on earth.
I'd rather whatever economic system I participate in at that point in the future to not waste our resources fighting unwinnable battles.
KamikazeArchon t1_j8m1sni wrote
"Professional criminals" as you're describing them virtually don't exist. They're a vanishingly small percentage.
Every criminal empire or organization of the kind you've described is heavily reliant on the rank-and-file, who barely get paid anything. You can't build a criminal organization that pays well; it simply does not work as a financial structure.
For every one high-rolling "mafioso" who can afford sports cars and penthouses, there are a hundred or a thousand street dealers and low-level thieves who probably make less than minimum wage.
The high-roller can maybe afford to go to space. The thousand street dealers cannot. And the high-roller, separated from the thousand street dealers supporting him, is just a guy in a fancy coat with a nice watch.
The kind of criminal enterprise you might get in space is white-collar criminality. Yakuza in space isn't likely, but Enron in space is.
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