[familyop]

Oh, no. I wasn’t saying that. I was equating fees and revenues with sales in some of the known dirtier cases, though. Adoption isn’t free. Sorry about the hyperbole.

We have seen in the news, though, international slavery from various practices of globalism. Not quite what we were discussing but maybe relevant to our future through deindustrialization, imports of cheap labor from other cultures without enough consideration of assimilation to American culture, etc.

[robowombat]

That reads like a major plot line in a dystopian novel about a future ‘North American Union’ complete with gradated levels of citizenship and a de facto class of ‘unassimilateds’ from the Third World who have virtually no rights and are imported for varying terms of labor servitude.