Ed Calderon

What are geographical constraints?

All that kind of stuff.

How does a cartel take power?

How does it gain control of this local area that you mentioned and then grow, take control of a region?

And how does it do so in this dynamic relationship between politicians and the military and the police force?

And leverage in terms of, uh, forcing those bodies to do whatever is needed because the alternative for those people is, is nothing.

There's no options.

So there is a trajectory.

There's many trajectories possible in your life where you could have been still operating in a criminal organization in Mexico.

So I think... I have a sense that the skills transfer pretty well.

That's also the dark side of this whole thing.

Yeah.

For people who criticize social media and the moderation, it's a tough job.

It's a brutal world out there.

Just an escalation of brutality in the violence as well.

I mean... And that leads to terror and the mass communication of terror.

Is there a game theoretic

to remove this kind of brutality, to deescalate the brutality?

Because it seems like if a cartel takes power that exceeds the power of politicians in a locality, there's a strong incentive to reduce the brutality, to crack down on this kind of chainsaw executions.

They're corrupted too.