This is a great example of how markets are an abstraction over cruelty. It adds a layer of indirection between the people doing the exploiting and the people who are exploited. A decentralized version of the dynamic Graeber describes in Debt where conquering nations would spare a city’s lives and label their plundering of that city as a form of debt that must be “voluntarily” paid.

You take something some people are doing, prohibit them from doing it, and if they complain, you act like they’re living outside of their means or being irresponsible, despite their behavior not changing.