Imagine you're a farmer in the Third World – No matter how hard you have worked to plant and harvest your crop there's only one potential buyer. So instead of a true market value you are offered a minimal price. Your children have nothing to eat and you're desperate for the cash. “You sell at any price!”

The reality is that anything is better than not selling the crop at all.

 

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