I think it’s more like the criminals naturally moved to other places by themselves once it got harder for them to survive and do business. Many criminals from Europe moved to the Americas, and many criminals from China just moved to Southeast Asia. In fact, so many of China’s criminals moved to SEA that there’s a stereotype of them being in illegal businesses.
@BowTiedBull Probably same thing happens to software products too as they become commoditized by AI. But it’ll create smaller firms and more sovereign individuals as predicted by the book.