It is primarily the drug war, but supplemented by the welfare state. Prohibition creates a huge amount of profit by limiting supply and increasing risk, while demand remains about the same. This leads to gangs, thugs, guns, and other rackets in the now-criminal drug market.
The consumers go to jail, the retailers go to jail, the suppliers just get involved in transport, crime rings, and weapons.
The welfare state produces retailers and consumers for this market, by trapping the poor in isolated communities, segregated by public housing and public schools, with low morale and no hope for the future...
Economic manipulations prevent prosperity (leave people in poverty). In poverty, disease causes more death.
Economic manipulations also make war more likely: you don't go to war with your trading partners, and when you can't trade to get resources, you invade to get resources.
Economic manipulations probably don't lead to drug addiction ... although they have been known to lead to alcoholism!
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It is primarily the drug war, but supplemented by the welfare state. Prohibition creates a huge amount of profit by limiting supply and increasing risk, while demand remains about the same. This leads to gangs, thugs, guns, and other rackets in the now-criminal drug market.
The consumers go to jail, the retailers go to jail, the suppliers just get involved in transport, crime rings, and weapons.
The welfare state produces retailers and consumers for this market, by trapping the poor in isolated communities, segregated by public housing and public schools, with low morale and no hope for the future...
Economic manipulations prevent prosperity (leave people in poverty). In poverty, disease causes more death.
Economic manipulations also make war more likely: you don't go to war with your trading partners, and when you can't trade to get resources, you invade to get resources.
Economic manipulations probably don't lead to drug addiction ... although they have been known to lead to alcoholism!
But that isn't socialism as originally defined.