I have the right to perform a sexual service in exchange for money.

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149. how do you expect they could have firm numbers of an illegal trade?

Have you ever read about the transatlantic slave trade? There are no hard numbers, and that trade was legal, much of it documented. You expect hard numbers for human trafficking? What scenario in your mind makes that possible? You think immigration officers diligently track each and every slave as the enter a country, filling out paperwork? Or that slave traders provide invoices of how many human beings they smuggle inside a cargo vessel?

This is the abstract. That means a summary of the central findings of the research.

This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows.
According to economic theory, there are two opposing effects of unknown magnitude. The
scale effect of legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market,
increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked
women as legal prostitutes are favored over trafficked ones. Our empirical analysis for a
cross-section of up to 150 countries shows that the scale effect dominates the substitution
effect. On average, countries where prostitution is legal experience larger reported human
trafficking inflows.

10 percent more human beings sold into bondage. Why should that matter? It's not like they are men of means, human beings who actually count.

Let's be honest here. The point is a clear refusal to care about whether more people are sold into slavery. The more important issue is that men of money have access to purchasing sex whenever they want. Pretending this is about anything other than male entitlement is absurd. Capitalist exploitation is a virtue. Survival of the fittest. Caring out human rights is so passé. It's all about power and privilege. That's what must be fought for under all circumstances.

Point made. I now understand why there is so much exploitation and inequality around the world. Those who benefit from it will justify that exploitation at all costs. Railing about "corporatists" is a smokescreen for the fact they feel entitled to benefit from the rampant exploitation of others. They will pretend those people don't exist because really they just don't matter. That is the why we have rampant inequality. That is why capitalism is able to exploit, use, and spit out human beings. Capital finds its collaborators among the privileged who show willful disregard for the human rights of others.