Oh, I want to clarify something as that's a delicate thing. With "business as usual", I did not meant stuff like child trafficking was going on, far from it.

I meant to allude to the abusive work/life relationships that develop in a place like that, where people are isolated and there's no real supervision from competent authorities.

It was like living in a big replica of a Stanford prison experiment, I plan to write about it sometime as it showed me plenty of things about how humans could behave when certain circumstances are met.

This is a good read on the topic (the author has been on a few podcasts also)

https://www.amazon.com/Kidnap-Inside-Business-Anja-Shortland...

TLDR: Its basically an efficient market in some countries, most people have kidnap insurance even though they dont know it (as their employer isnt allowed to diclose this insurance), the insurers know the criminals going rate, and can cut off their entire business if they break the "rules"