What Happens When the Only Market Is the Black Market?
The term "Black Market" is shunned by most "law abiding citizens", but really, it is the only real market, and its seeming darkness is govern-cement propaganda.
Today, the black market includes young girls selling lemonade, from their sidewalk, without a business license.
And as the govern-cement cracks down even harder, trying to keep itself alive, trying to maintain its relevance, the black market may be the thing that saves the most people. Imagine if to get asprin or asthma medicine, you needed state ID to purchase, and the state had suspended your license. This has already happened, now imagine that the state takes it further.
What happens when the grocery store only takes an EBT like card, a UBI stipend, but you only got a card if you had a clean record, but you didn't, because you had an outstanding parking ticket, or you bought Mien Kampf because your daughter needed if for her class (both of these happened) Soooo, if you want something from the grocery store, you will need to enter the black market.
The market that goes around the govern-cement.
Food
One food substance we have been able to get for thousands of years, but now is black market, is raw milk. In many places you can only get the stuff by buying it from someone who is working outside the system.
Coming up, those mother WEFers are planning on limiting food. Probably rationing, and so, if you are not in good standing with the system, you may find yourself with no other choice than to buy food from the black market.
Currently we have paths to turn EBT into liquor. Soon we will have people trading "excess" food for other valuable things (like dollars if they still exist).
There are strong possibilities that govern-cements try to crack down on local gardeners. Especially when they are trying to control food. So, getting your food from them will be a "crime". (so, remember you were just given some produce, and you had a gift you wanted to give them, of some old coins you had for their collection.)
Medicine
The way that the FDA is going after vitamins, to bring them under their umbrella, we may see a time when vitamins are right up their with illegal drugs.
And, if we go to open war with China, we will see many standard drugs be unavailable or limited availability. It may be the only way you get the medicine you need to survive is the black market.
If you are not aware yet, the illegal drug trafficking is done under the watchful eye of the police. The drugs coming in, are not a briefcase full now and then, it is a SEMI TRUCK TRAILER every single day into every large city. The only way this happens is with the help of govern-cement officials. If you look into this, this is the conclusion you will come to. That this whole thing is a scam to make certain people rich, because people will pay whatever for drugs. If it wasn't pushed into the black market by laws, it would be cheap, available, clean - meaning no huge profits.
It is looking more and more like a parallel economy will form.
If people come together in tribes, than food is just divvied up by people who need it. No sales. And the marketing is done by what people want to eat, and thus what they plant.
Currently the govern-cement cannot impose themselves in this kind of structure, but i am sure they will try. Each tribe can literally tell the judge that they all shared in growing the produce and eating it. Just like a large family.
And these new "families"/tribes will realize that it would be good to make something to trade. Like a Florida family grows oranges, and trades it with a family in Alabama grows cotton and makes cloth. Of course, cryptos will probably aid in completing the trades…
Of course, why wait for the govern-cement to create black markets, start build the parallel economy now. Make it so that that the Infernal Revolting Syndicate has nothing they can tax.
Those mother WEFers want more power. And one place they are going is to limit stuff. And what they will limit will be food and drugs and… many other things that will be considered shtupid.
And as this happens, more people find ways around it. So, get used to the word "black market". It will probably just become "the market", or "the free market".
Spot on.Black market becomes the real market when the official one gets too choked. Cash, crypto,gold, favors — whatever can't be tracked. Good post, makes you think. What's your plan if it flips that way?
It’s a sobering reminder that human demand doesn't vanish under regulation; it just goes underground. You hit the nail on the head regarding the "risk premium"—when the state removes legal protections, violence and high costs inevitably fill the void.
I appreciate these deep dives into the unintended consequences of over-regulation. The market always finds a way. Great read!
This post made me think deeply. Here in Ghana, the lines between "formal" and "informal" economy are blurred every day. Market women, street vendors, small roadside sellers — they operate outside the system, yet they feed families, pay school fees, and keep communities alive.
The government calls it "illegal," but communities call it survival.
Reading your post, I see the same pattern everywhere. When systems fail people, people create their own systems. Crypto feels the same way — a parallel economy for those who don't trust the official one.
Thank you for sharing this perspective. It challenges the way we think about "legality" vs. "necessity."