Piracy on the high seas pays off for the locals

longam · 11-20-09, 09:02 PM

Well I can’t find any links to this but on CNN they were playing a skit about how that the pirates have driven off the factory fishing ships, and now the fishing has become rewarding to the local fishermen.

Is this really what it would take to revise the economy so the people could start making money again?

If this is true then the piracy was the cause and effect of corporate greed once again being introduced on a community?

Platapus · 11-20-09, 09:26 PM

I guess an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. In this case, a positive one for some people.

bookworm_020 · 11-22-09, 04:57 AM

Talk about one way to protect the local industry!

August · 11-22-09, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by longam

If this is true then the piracy was the cause and effect of corporate greed once again being introduced on a community?

Yep. It was corporate greed what stripped their livelihoods that turned them towards piracy in the first place. More specifically it was the lack of a government strong enough to keep those factory ships out of their coastal waters that allowed corporate greed to flourish.

Jimbuna · 11-22-09, 02:35 PM

I fear they will still see piracy as being a much more rewarding pastime

11-20-09, 09:02 PM	#1
longam Admiral Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,014 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Piracy on the high seas pays off for the locals Well I can’t find any links to this but on CNN they were playing a skit about how that the pirates have driven off the factory fishing ships, and now the fishing has become rewarding to the local fishermen. Is this really what it would take to revise the economy so the people could start making money again? If this is true then the piracy was the cause and effect of corporate greed once again being introduced on a community?

11-20-09, 09:26 PM	#2
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I guess an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. In this case, a positive one for some people. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

11-22-09, 04:57 AM	#3
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Talk about one way to protect the local industry! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

11-22-09, 02:35 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I fear they will still see piracy as being a much more rewarding pastime __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!