"Byron said, pirates, gangs, black markets... these things cannot be completely eradicated in this era of low productivity; the key to governance is control.
If Black Sails Harbor were to completely eradicate these black businesses, they would just move to a place beyond our control and continue operating; it would be better to keep them close for easy supervision.
Managing a crime syndicate full of ruffians is never a battle between good and evil but a choice between greater and lesser evils.
This is also the limit of what a 'Pirate King' can achieve.
Only when the cost of being a good citizen is less than that of a criminal can we fundamentally reduce such occurrences.
Byron said that with the material boom brought by the whale oil power revolution, this day should eventually come.
