12-10-2010, 08:27 AM
(12-09-2010, 05:43 PM)Touchstone Wrote:yes by all means slavery is part of the black market trade.(12-09-2010, 11:19 AM)billy Wrote: some latitude will be allowed because it's a broad question but don't go too far astray .No talk about slavery then?
Seriously...of course it's good, it wouldn't exist otherwise. Black (and grey) markets spring up naturally wherever there are unacceptable constraints preventing people from trading freely; whether they be monopolies, government regulations, or whatever.
If I'm happy to give someone what they're asking, and they're happy to relinquish possession of whatever it is that they have which I want, it's nobodies business but ours. And if we can't do it "legitimately" then we will do it "illegitimately".
i'm of a similar mind to you though from experience what i usually buy ends up a crock of shit lol. on the slavery side. the back market re people used as slaves in the sex trade, the fashion industry etc. different in that the sex slave trade is a physical thing that for me constitutes sexual rape and all the crimes that go with it. it should be stopped. and those found guilty given life sentences or death. the sweat shops and some other kinds of employment within the black market are a harder thing to define or deal with. ideally the workers should get a fair wage and all the benefits of other workers.
migrant workers and should be given fair wages and benefits though if that happened the cost of food and other commodities would rise ( i could live with that) i know the issue on this one is broader and the argument is that migrant workers take the jobs of locals. thing is the locals won't work for a pittance and if the farmers paid what they should they'd be a chance they'd go out of business.
for me the black market workers who need to be shut down are the one who have no trade yet pretend to in order to prey on the poor and old etc. the roofer who doesn't have a pair of ladders etc. i hate them with a vengeance. jmo