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onedognight on Nov 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nat...

> Do you realize how many jobs there are at stake here.

Of course. Do you realize how many more people are saddled with the cost of providing those worthless jobs[1]?

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Parable_of_th...

zem on Nov 13, 2011 [–]

the problem with externalities is that the people who don't pay their costs have little incentive not to simply leave them off the books.

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