I met a 'people smuggler' when I was in prison. This is always a murky business. The same applies in any field you can point at where there is the violation of unjust laws.
So I have a bit of a different perspective on this. The corruption stems from the root not from a far branch. However, I am not in support of people who make contracts in which they can fail and there isn't reasonable compensation for a failure to produce. Fair enough some costs have to be up front, because of the risk. But all the costs of failure should not fall on the client.
So, I simply don't know and I also don't know who is a reputable source of information, and as for 'doom porn', I think I have made a reasonable bit of money recently from 'hope porn' with my ideas about electromagnetic propulsion systems and intelligence resistant organisation network systems... and generally about the possibilities of Steem an similar systems.
There is something very bad coming soon, the global economy is really only holding on by the skin of its' teeth, and the central banks hold so much assets in all kinds of markets now that they can just make one order to liquidate and everyone's jumping out of buildings and foreclosed and living on the street. So there is reasons to be looking and talking about this.