>>486421This is a partially correct analysis.
However you ought not conceptualize the state as a unitary thing. There are lots of different parts to a state. The same thing applies to the law.
Modern states are suppressing clan-society bullshit like honor-killings and blood-feuds. That's a good thing.
But modern states are also getting infiltrated by mafia organizations that are trying to legitimize their thuggery and make the police do what used to be done by goon-squats.
Think about copyright and patents in the context of the health-care industry. It's basically an ideological veneer for big and powerful mafia organizations declaring healing with medicines as their turf and taking a cut. But unlike street-mafias they're not fighting these turf wars with gang-violence, they are manipulating the state apparatus to do it with state violence.
The street-mafias also manipulate the state, usually via bribery and blackmail directed against low level functionaries of the state. So even in the embryonic stages the pattern already exists in some forms. Many small time mafiosi have aspirations to "go legit" and that can mean conforming their mafia-activities to what is considered "reputable business practices". However quite often they don't mean to change what they do, they mean to change the state and the law. They seek to conform the conception of legitimacy not their activities. When they succeed you get these absurd situations where what used to be a crime is redefined into enforcement.
When for example a street-gang raids and destroys the make-shift laboratory for biologically active substances of a rival gang, we call that gang-wars and talk about crime-syndicates. But when the exact same turf-struggle happens on a larger scale all the words change. It will get described as pharmaceutical company suing one another one for patent infringement and it's law enforcement shutting down the production of infringerínos or what ever the "correct" jargon is.
Obviously many people are harmed and killed because of what those gangs do and that's why it's considered organized crime. But the body count of the corporate sector dwarfs that, but somehow they're not considered organized crime. The difference is a mafia that got big enough to manipulate the state and the law.
By the way the economic mechanisms that produce the mafia structures are the same for copyright/patents and prohibited narcotics. Artificial scarcity increases the profit margins a lot and like always there's people willing to do terrible things to get their cut. To bring this full circle. Delaying or denying health-care is also a way for creating this artificial scarcity, that causes all this crime.
So perhaps a better way to look at this is to consider a dichotomy between
legal crimes and illegal crimesand add some new categories like:
legislative crimesthat refers to powerful groups manipulating the state/law in ways that enables them to inflict harm on people.
Like copyrights/patents ought to be considered legislative crimes because it leads to people not getting medications, resulting in preventable harm or death. Those rules that allow insurance companies to do the delay and deny trickery probably is another candidates for a legislative crime.