Thursday, November 11, 2010

Week 6 EOC: Ilicit: What Do I Think Of It

There is definitely and deliberately a huge illicit network. Trafficking knock offs of all kinds, all over the world. It seems that the black markets drive is plain old money. The rich gets richer, and, coincidently the poor get poorer. However in some cases the poor population get an opportunity to provide for their family. It controls a lot of the hard money. Since most of this world have gone wireless in terms of currency. It is easy to see that the mafia is controlling the black market. Funding whatever they need to survive as an entity. As with everyone who is involved in the trafficking of illegal goods, they are all doing it to survive. I can remember bootleg goods since the beginning of my time. For as long as there was goods, there was illicit goods. So this whole black market is dictated by the demand of any of the black market products. I have first hand experience with the tip of the ice berg of the black market. Coming from Hawaii, which is in the middle of the pacific, not only that it is a major military post for the US. It is also a major shipping post of half of the world, the Pacific Rim. As a child I wonder how do we get so much illegal fireworks, year after year. Before statehood of Hawaii, the Chinese have been shipping through Hawaii. A lot of illicit material, including fireworks where illegally smuggled into the state. It brought a modern Hawaii tradition to display fireworks during new years. A tradition that is custom of Chinese. I didn’t think nothing of it growing up on the island. It brought an opportunity to make money among families who easily had both parents working 2 jobs each just to survive. Just like downloading a song, it seemed harmful in the moment. But unconsciousness takes its toll and the effects goes unnoticed and overlooked.

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