> Coupled with a legal system that provides a steady inflow of new consumers.
To be fair, the legal system also removes consumers from the pool, so it's not a matter of "newness" but just that the system maintains some basic population.
To be fair, the legal system also removes consumers from the pool, so it's not a matter of "newness" but just that the system maintains some basic population.
And even if it was maintaining some basic population, the incentives become misaligned when you start introducing a for-profit prison industry.