Setting up a dark web market is something most people would want to get anywhere close to...
Imagine being responsible for facilitating murder-for-hire, sex trafficking and so on...
Imagine being responsible for facilitating murder-for-hire, sex trafficking and so on...
You need to be either professional criminal (skill set completely orthogonal to IT, so chance of somebody possessing both at professional level is miniscule), or a moron.
If you want that to change you have to make it illegal to do business with such folks not hope consumers fix it for you via the magic of the market.
I think it's also more jarring that diamonds are otherwise useless symbols of status. At least iphones trickle down in some way (e.g. allowing the proliferation of older gen smartphones even in poor countries).