W orld Number 41. But what is scarce in a world where new technologies make distance obsolete, and pockets of scarcity are accessible to exploitations The new freedoms raise an important question about whether it is always right to produce certain goods or services, and to trade in them. Free marketeers tend to forget that, although market laws entail a degree of self-regulation, this precludes society having any right, through its elected representatives, to set rules to determine what may or may not be traded. Without that right, the only law is the law of the jungle, under which humanity is reduced to an object, saleable for money and at will.
Crime is an inseparable part of any human community, and every society has the crimes it deserves.
A global society that claims to be built on the ruins of national laws has changed the marketplace into a vast bazaar, in which even governments rush to sell their regulations to the highest bidder. They had no real choice, since the 1960s drugs traffickers, those real pioneers of globalisation, never asked permission before trading internationally and intercontinentally in the world's most expensive and profitable commodities. But the only real result of its elimination was to encourage secondary outbreaks all over the world, as trafficking was taken over by the Sicilian and North American mafias. The networks' centre of gravity then shifted to the US, that apologist for free trade. The rest we know.