d2d sales x billion, mlm x billion, affinity fraud x billion, crypto schemes ...
If you want to talk about an economy based on "preying on other human beings" those definitely are some of the worst examples.
And our happy little valley is definitely a net exporter, not a net importer, of those things. It's not like there's some big bad wolf from the outside trying to take advantage of us, WE are the ones taking advantage of others.