You might be able to make a living buying goods where legal and smuggling to sell where illegal. In the patch notes:
Black markets now offer the full market value for Illegal goods
Not in game right now so can't test if "illegal" includes goods that are stolen but otherwise illegal or only actual illegal goods. Also need to test "full market value" — is that galactic average? On what standard is "full market value" set?
It would be better if they were selling at a bit higher than regular market value (see diatribe below that I've repeated before for rationale) but it's a step in the right direction
Anybody out there available to test illegal vs stolen and maybe suss out the standard that sets "full market value"?
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/rcnmtz/great_day_in_the_morning_smugglers_rejoice/