Except that piracy has always been explicitly endorsed by the beneficiaries of the system, they simply change the name, structure the conditions such that their piracy is considered part of the system even if it isn’t and then proceed to be pirates.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer
Things get even more muddled when you consider that selfish agents may believe they are structuring a system for selfish gain when they are in fact destroying the system for everybody including themselves.
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is all notwithstanding the fact that most of where we get our modern day depiction of pirates as evil ne’er-do-wells is from Robert Newton films.