We see it everyday. The have not's want it. Will go to extremes to get it.
When did it change? A kid will kill another for a pair of shoe's?

Same shit different day, different items



There has always been these people, looting, robbing killing for items..but at different times the rest of society gave them reason to fear the consequences, now we do not do that enough.



 

The items used to be food.

Now they are iPhones.

Next they will be cybernetic implants.

Yes.

Particularly for high status/low utility items.
The underclass seems prone to this.

Your sig line made me me chuckle.

Does communism have commercialism?
Communism still has crime.
As long as somebody thinks they can get something easier through crime then working for it there will be crime.

Do capitalist countries   have a black market for commercial goods?  No!
Because the black market cannot compete with the free market.

Quit blaming something else for some ones actions. Commercialism does not cause crime. Criminals cause crime it is as simple as that.
Guns kill people! No people kill people! Spoons make people fat! No fat people eat to much!

Uh, yea...ever heard of crack? prostitution? etc.....

If anything the black market is a capitalist country is bigger than a communist country because you can find the components to build/manufacture whatever you need.