If you’re assuming people can get starting capital by theft at an acceptable risk level, why wouldn’t they just continue with that strategy instead of escalating to the risk of murder?
Theft doesn’t scale. Investing does. The plan of theft followed by assassination-aided investment will get you more money in the long run, for less risk, than the plan of repeated theft. At least, so it seems. Probably this is not true otherwise we’d see drug cartels doing it.
If you’re assuming people can get starting capital by theft at an acceptable risk level, why wouldn’t they just continue with that strategy instead of escalating to the risk of murder?
Theft doesn’t scale. Investing does. The plan of theft followed by assassination-aided investment will get you more money in the long run, for less risk, than the plan of repeated theft. At least, so it seems. Probably this is not true otherwise we’d see drug cartels doing it.