I like comparing this idea to Ricky Gervais' movie "The Invention of Lying". To think about the first person to lie in a news headline... It's just hilarious.
It's a "feature". :P In the same way that it is a feature that the cab driver doesn't have a permit or the proper insurance. Is this really how the new blackmarket is going to work? Do something illegal nationwide with average citizens running it and you are good to go? Maybe I am just being negative. Sorry.
Brick can be recycled but I see what you are saying. And hearing that people are getting killed pulling live wires... That would definitely imply that copper is epic loot in Detroit right now.
Which you can also resell. You could even scrap the ovens for money and water heaters. There is far more motivation to wreck it than upkeep it. All those houses are goin doooown.
Each home = $500. There is more than $500 of materials in each home. Aveerage home has 200-300lbs worth of copper. Each home gets destroyed. I am calling it right now.