A Moral Dilemma II - Black Market in Tiranny

Last week I started this series of short articles with the intention of show everyone how it is to live in Venezuela, people from the free world can´t imagine how tyranny force people to take some moral life or death decisions everyday, and this is my way to show reality and prevent you to choose socialism based on lies and propaganda.

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In the first article of the serie, I talked about Venezuelan passports and the curious way for celebrities to get it, if you want to check out, just click here.

This time I will talk about black market. I´m sure all of you know what black market is, everyone has seen a Second World War, Mafia or drug dealers movie. Probably, you think that Black market is bad and origins from the prohibition to sell any product o service, making it hard to find, so delinquents sell it for a lot of money in dark alleys. Cocaine, heroin, booze, prostitution, snuff videos and that kind of stuffs.

And you are partially right, in free countries that´s how black market works, but in real socialism is different. Socialism legislates on everything; legislate on things, on persons, on money, on properties, on prices and so on, making impossible to prosper without breaking the law. So, in my opinion black market isn´t good or bad, is just one consequence of socialist regulations and a ruin economy.

By example, if I leave the country and I want to send 10$ to my mother, if I don´t want to be a “delinquent” I must send it thru some exchanges that pay for my dollars 60% or less of its real price. So my mother will receive 6$ or less. The rest is for the tyranny and their partners. So people created a currency black market.

So, in Venezuela there is a black market for EVERYTHING. Forget about dark alleys and needles; forget about code names and this kind of stuff. Black market is everywhere, Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, principal streets. People buy and sell stuff without knowing they are participating in the black market.

And here comes the moral dilemma. Food and medicine. The local production and prices of both are controlled by the regime and is not enough, so unfortunately they end in black market. So you can imagine what happens, low offer, high demand, skyrocketed prices causing a lot of people that can´t pay for it and dies for starvation and sickness.

In free countries, people work for a decent pay and live with dignity. People don´t make lines for hours to buy food just to sell it later, people don´t buy antibiotics that they don´t need for sell it later for three o four times it´s “price”. It happens here because if you do so, in a week or less, you could gain more than working for a month in a bank. It´s a way of living.

So, what do you think? Is this bad people? If your son´s bare foot or shoes depends of it, would you became a black market medicine dealer?, Would you sell rice for 3 or 4 times the price that you pay for it?

Please dear reader, let me know what you think is the right way to act and why you think that way.