These days the dark underbelly has its own dark underbelly. It's dark underbellies all the way down.
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Arguably all there's ever been. First time we're adding 'lit economy' onto bedrock of informal, morally neutral economy.
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Haha, probably. Even on the internet, as a petri dish, porn/malware dwarfs 'legit' economy.
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Last I heard, dark economy was like 30% of total? I think Nils Gilman has some stuff on deviant globalization with the stats
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Yeah, Illicit, McMafia, Deviant Globalization, all kind of approximate around that number. But, informal also broadly covers 'untaxed'
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Haha, the grandson of a collector/commissioner/joint secretary, I can assure you, pani puri walla is definitely underbelly at best.

