FILM THEORY takes on Disney's Human Trafficking Issue in Pinnocchio

One of the things I enjoy most about the FILM THEORY series on YouTube is the application of reality to an otherwise fantasy aspect of a movie's plot.

In Film Theory: The Cost of Disney's DARKEST Business!! (Pinocchio), the topic of discussion is Pleasure Island, the tiny landmass walled off from the outside world, where mischievous boys go to drink, play, smoke, and destroy whatever's in their way. Then the boys turn into donkeys, where they are then sold and used in salt mines.

MatPat does the math, and while it's about a damn cartoon, he lays out just how profitable human trafficking can be, even with enormous up front costs and continuous overhead.

The video gets especially good around the 11:50 mark, when he breaks down the numbers of orphans left after wars ravaged Europe in the late 1800's-early 1900's. Now think of this in context to how many orphans are left in warzones nowadays. Libya is now an open slave market (thanks, Hillary.) And some "orphans" from natural disasters aren't orphans at all, yet get trafficked (Laura Silsby, I'm looking at you.) and it's only a fraction of the traffickers that get caught. Yet when they are caught, some are afforded special treatment by political elites, as in the case of Silsby getting bailed out by Bill Clinton when stealing children off the streets of Haiti.

Gee, I wonder why they get such leeway?

Could it be because human trafficking is lucrative?

The video also points out that those responsible for trafficking never meet justice. Out of all the boys shipped to Pleasure Island, Pinocchio is the only one to escape because all those other boys, those "real boys", didn't have a Blue Fairy to grant wishes made upon a star.