The Justice System That Lets Executives Escape Their Crimes
Global commerce is ugly, nasty business. It&#x27;s basically lawless frontier. Only fools and the unscrupulous dare tread there. You can bet that in any given deal, human trafficking is going to be involved at some point, everybody involved does their best to look the other way or justify it. Systems of justice are easily perverted to suit personal schemes. Slavery may not exist anymore in the sense of humans being bought and sold on the open market, but instruments of sovereignty are regularly bought and sold on semi-open markets.<p>Trade deals like TPP are attempts by the governments of the world to regularize this world and bring it to heel, like a sheriff to a frontier town. They can be politically controversial, because you can&#x27;t build a system of international law without infringing on the ability of people to pass their own laws. But it&#x27;s either trade deals or the Wild West. Goods and capital are going to move around the world no matter what, all we can do is try to regulate it the best we can.