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Ross notes how the ransom that Disney paid to Osceola County for the favor of being exempt from providing low-income housing assistance within Celebration was eaten up by theme-park employees who could not afford to live in Celebration on a Disney wage.
Delving into the past, Jeremy Jackson and colleagues (2001) combined local historic records with current estimates to detail the ecological impacts of overfishing, Reg Watson and Daniel Pauly (2001) drew attention to distortions of global catches, and Ransom Myers and Boris Worm (2003) highlighted the depletion of the majority of the largest ocean predators.
But a long time ago somebody--I wouldn't be surprised if it were a Phoenician tin merchant in the first millennium B.C.--realized that a clever man with sufficiently deep pockets could basically hold such a market up for ransom.
Here's how Larry Rohter describes it in the New York Times : "A band of guerrillas appears out of nowhere, sets up a roadblock on a main highway, stops every car or bus that happens along, takes away all the passengers who seem likely to have a good job or a prominent name, and holds them captive until a hefty ransom is paid."
They say that John Ramsey's samples did not match the ransom note.