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kgwgk on May 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and mad...

Let's say some pawnbroker is "flexible" about the provenance of goods. How do thieves benefit from being forbidden from selling to him?

Fnoord on May 13, 2017 [–]

Ideally, in a free society, laws are upheld by police enforcement. Thieves would therefore be unable to sell their products to a pawnshop, and the pawnshop would be unable to fence these products.

Of course, a society might fail with that goal but that doesn't make the goal invalid or non-existent.

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