In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the reality of every major developed country in the world having a large shadow economy as well as a group of people best described as second-class citizens which are off the books but do all the dangerous and challenging work. We talk about the direct and indirect impacts of these shadow economies, who benefits and pays the price, and, in general, the overall morality of this reality. With big data, surveillance, and high-tech methods, the shadow economy could be eliminated or dramatically reduced, but this never seems to play out, which begs the question, who benefits?

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