RE: What Happens When the Only Market Is the Black Market?

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."