1) currently, in modern history a person turns into a intellectual adult roughly around 26-27 years old when they shift out high risk v reward mindset into low time preference, second order thinking so long as their prefrontal cortex has properly developed - brain imaging supports this finding, no religious or cultural context necessary 2) in order for any individual to enter a truly sovereign marketplace, they must do so with the capacity for self-driven informed consent - small children do not have this capacity as they are in a concrete stage of brain development that does not scale for abstract predatory thought (ie, when we are children we believe we are much more intelligent than we are until we get into our 30s and understand we knew nothing at all) 3) adults are welcome to sell themselves in agorist marketplaces - see above 4) it is not the expectation that children *will not* attempt this same behavior and that the all the infinite possible channels for this type of behavior will stop being possible, it IS the expectation that appropriately developed adults will not create demand for this content and/or interactive behavior (particularly with prepubescent children and younger)- causing the market to be DOA (dead on arrival) and thus, poor functioning (rather than thriving as it does today) Next subject.