Lin Qi was good at persuading people. He was very reasonable, and that was important.
Conner did not think there was anything wrong with what Lin Qi had said. On the contrary, he somewhat agreed with him.
Actually, it was not just vagrants. Some people at the bottom of society, such as gang members, were the same.
They did not engage in any productive work or create any value for society. All they did was destroy, plunder, and take, disrupting social order.
Like vagrants, these people only wasted limited resources by staying alive.
Of course, not all gang members were like that. Some of them did quite well. They paid their taxes normally and did not make illegal business their main occupation. For example...
Conner glanced at Lin Qi. He had heard of the Green Brothers long before Gladstone had brought him over to run for president.
Sweeping away the Five Great Families of Bu Peien overnight was not something a small gang could accomplish.
Moreover, as the core of the Federation's commerce and politics, Bu Peien's five major gangs and Five Great Families were not merely gangs in the conventional sense.
They were the public faces of complex webs of interests. They were the black gloves of countless people. Precisely because they had done too many things and had too many people standing behind them, they were actually difficult to deal with.
Who knew whether they had some important evidence in their hands? If they threw it out in a situation where they were certain to die, everyone would die together.
Many politicians understood this. They knew very well that the price of using such people was not as simple as giving them some money, giving them some information, or becoming their protector.
While using these people, they would