SYSTEM DThe Economic Underground

1. What is “System D”?

Economics that exist OUTSIDE the traditional framework

(such as trade agreements, labor laws, copyright protections, product safety

regulations, anti-pollution legislation and a host of other political, social and environmental policies)

2. Like drug trafficking?

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3. What kind of money are we talking about here?

World’s second-largest economy

Economic productivity of $10 trillion (which is probably a low estimate).

World-wide, by 2020, will employ 2 out of every 3 working people.

4. So, this growth is mostly criminal enterprise?

5. Does the government have a solution to this system?

System D is more prevalent where the government is the controlling barrier in the economy

System D is more prevalent where the government is the cause of problems

6. So...then System D is good?

System D is usually a symptom of other human rights abuses.

So...what?