In my view, "making the financial stake explicit and legal" and "[removing] it from the shadow area" won't prevent abuse, but would simply legitimise it. But at

In my view, "making the financial stake explicit and legal" and "[removing] it from the shadow area" won't prevent abuse, but would simply legitimise it. But at the end of the day, I think this boils down to whether you are a market fundamentalist, i.e. whether you have faith in the markets to solve all social and economic problems, or not.