You jest, but I have experience that leads me to believe some of you do go out of your way to do just that. One in particular, where sanctions were involved. I probably shouldn't get into it. Again, we're getting off track.
Peder, trading too easy? Are you a masochist? Do you wear bondage gear while playing? Assuming you're not working with miners, you know how many roundtrips between rheinland and bretonia it takes to buy a CAU 8? Like, 50, which equates to, at minimum, some 25 hours of doing the same thing over and over and over again.
Now, it would be much more interesting and rewarding if piracy was a bigger problem and I had to hire escorts, but with the current profit/time rates of standard trade, it would then take foreverx2 to buy anything. Even with the RP, this is still supposed to be a fun action space shooter. Not an eastern MMO grindfest, which is what it would become if you had to split your current profits in half to hire on an escort.