Department of Free Markets Being Better than Black Markets

A BBC Scotland documentary on organ sales is on TV tonight. The reporter discovers, shockingly, that:

There is a black market in kidneys here in the UK.

I secretly filmed people trying to sell me their kidneys, exploiting the vulnerability of someone who is desperate to help a family member.

They are also trying to exploit the very law that has changed to allow me to make a 'stranger donation'.

They wanted to fool the authorities - the first woman I met started with an asking price of £250,000, another man wanted the 'price of a Mercedes' - £60,000.

I met them in cafes across the UK and their actions were shocking.

They know they are doing something illegal and just don't seem to care.

I met with a man who was a 'transplant tourist', who paid £7,000 in Pakistan to buy a kidney.

I understand his desperation but I then travelled to India and met with the very people who are selling their kidneys.

They have been butchered - their scars are huge and they have long-term health problems.

It did make me doubt my actions for a moment, but I realise that what I am doing is done with great care to me and does not involve money.

Two things: this is why a free market operates more efficiently, and to everyone's benefit, than a closed one and secondly and more seriously, when did it become acceptable for Britishers to adopt the (awful) Americanism "meet with"?

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[dearieme]

When did it become acceptable for Britons to adopt the (awful) Americanism "Britishers"?