Leeds reflects on fake goods

Fake fashion and knock-off gadgets are everywhere. Is buying a counterfeit item just a harmless bargain, or is it never the right thing to do?

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00:00Counterfeits can sometimes be very similar quality. I think it's a bit of a hyper-focus

00:06fetishisation of a strange capitalist society and I think it doesn't really matter that much.

00:13Regardless of all the best intentions in the world, our human nature will generally put to err as human

00:20and we err so naturally. So I reckon there's no right and wrong about that, it's about the way we are.

00:26It all depends if you go to car boat sales, you know. You think you've got a bargain and, you know, like me and the owner,

00:35a fake just looks like the rail, so who's going to know?

00:39I suppose what people would need to bear in mind if they're going to buy a fake designer item or a fake brand of aftershave,

00:45they might need to ask themselves some questions about the labour chain involved,

00:50what forms of modern contemporary slavery might have been involved in that,

00:54what sorts of violent people trafficking might have been involved in that.

00:57There's always been a black market in one way or another.

00:59There's always been a black market in one way or another.

01:00Number one.

01:01There's always been a black market in another way or the other.

01:03You can see bad crimes that have marinated with your old 게임 and one way or another.