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Protecting the Local Economy
You discuss something called protection theory and how this controls the industry. Can you speak to how the mafia has an organized groups have figured out how to skim without bleeding everybody dry? Protection theory says that there are a lots of spaces on this planet where the state just does not project power, and yet have a desperate need for their property rights to be protected.