The counterevidence is that these cartels never go after one another. None covet what any of the others possesses. Parents and children will go after one another, husbands and wives, best friends of long standing, but not gigantic criminal enterprises?
The hydra has any number of heads one chooses to count, but one single body to which they are all attached. We should be talking about that body. Toby does not seem to have noticed a body at all.
The counterevidence is that these cartels never go after one another. None covet what any of the others possesses. Parents and children will go after one another, husbands and wives, best friends of long standing, but not gigantic criminal enterprises?
The hydra has any number of heads one chooses to count, but one single body to which they are all attached. We should be talking about that body. Toby does not seem to have noticed a body at all.
The surest rule of life (other than death) is that there are a limited number of resources and near unlimited desires.
But I think you're on to something, in that sometimes a number of the heads can all be in on something to share the spoils.