Fontaine Wasnt Al Capone

* See also Fontaine
* See also Fontaines_Lair
* See also Economics_of_Production and Rapture_Economy
* See also Fontaine Futuristics
* See also Ryan_And_Fontaine
* See also Fontaine_The_Pusher
Alphonse Capone - Bobster/Businessman/Celebrity in the later 1920s and early 1930s - with a large business in illegal prohibition-era Alcohol
Fontaine had to be 'built up' to be some kindof of rival to threaten Ryan's influence and power - for the Story.
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Al Capone had millions of people as the Customers for his Illegal Booze. Capone made millions, but then was just one of many of the purveyors of that product (to OVER 100 million people).
Raptures Population ( est at 20000 - 40000 Rapture Population 20000 - estimate of the author of the Novel) was far far too small for a similar effect to generate the huge wealth needed (from PROFITS) to do what the gamewriters imply Fontaine did in building his business empire.
Seriously, HOW MANY 'Splicer' Customers would it take for an 'Industry' doing sales of ADAM products -- Which, BTW, was barely started, and was more in the Gimmick category up until the mere years before Fontaine's death and Rapture collapsed into a Terrorist-caused-Chaos ?
R & D ( Research and Development ) on a whole new (genetic) technology - That eats boo kooVietnamese word meaning "many of" or "much" - deriving from the French word "beaucoup", picked up during the Vietnam War by veterans and brought to the States. money ($$$). And THEN, it has to be turned into some mass-produced product ( which eats even more money and resources, and realistically is an even bigger difficulty ).
Competition in the ADAM Industry ... INCLUDING Ryan, who could NOT be coerced out of business. All those other companies ( SO Easy for gamemakers to put labels on stuff in the game - but far harder to justify such ) Fontaine supposedly later controlled ( and which was expanded ludicrously even more in the problematical Burial At Sea DLC ).
Mass-Produced products ( whatever of that could exist with such a small population ) then is limited by the Money of the customers ( and the utility to HAVE - of such a product of so many Customers ) -- ??? Some waiters using Teleport (in BaSx), or the party trick 'thumb Lighter' ( or Sander Cohen using them as a Recreational Drug ... ). Seriously, how many customers would THAT add upto ????? Remember it was supposedly Ryan who went big on the Marketing ( and THAT mere less than 3 months BEFORE the Kashmir terrorist attacks (.. All delayed by assuming control, and reorganization ), and THEN with the almost immediate ending of [[Glossary|Normalcy]|normalcy]] in Rapture ).
OK, the fishing industry ... But could Fontaine have coerced a monopoly on that without him getting a 'shotgun blast to the face' from one of the victims he 'strong-armed' out of business ( or the City Authorities intervening -- Thuggery ( assault/blackmail/murder IS still a crime, and against Rapture's Laws ). (( IF you believe the supposed lawlessness in Rapture, THEN HOW could that NOT happen ???? ))
Fontaine's covering up his crimes in such a small place as Rapture was ludicrous. Bribing the police (?), when Ryan's 'Right Hand' men controlled it ? And Ryan, if he, in the story, could not brook a rival ( like Fontaine was made out to be 'in the game' ), then HE would NOT ALLOW Fontaine's crimes to go unnoticed/unpunished ? SO Then Fontaine would be destroyed by the outing of his criminality ... Criminality : Only stupid/ignorant people think that Libertarianism or Objectivism means Lawlessness or Lack of the Rule of Law.
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ALSO : As soon as ADAM (Plasmids) were seen as causing Disfigurement, Cancer, Insanity - ALL VERY SERIOUS ISSUES for normal people -- Rapture's population would have stopped buying the poison virtually overnight. ( Would actually RUN from such a product. ) Consider : The Novel and the inconsistent game details vaguely infer early use of ADAM Plasmids. Any/All nasty side effects manifested by just a few WOULD INSTANTLY have been all over the Free Press Front Pages, and THEN Fontaine would soon be out of business.
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I understand "IT IS ONLY A GAME", but let us consider how thing work in the Real World when the gamewriter's Story is supposed to make Rapture a reflection of a real society extracted from the existing Surface World, and THEN being subjected to a "Bio" "Shock".
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