Taking advantage of cheap labour in times of crisis - Social reflection

Hello Project.Hope community, today I want to talk to you about a reality, and I have realized in some readings that I have been having regarding the consequences of wars and how some powerful people benefit from all this, later I will talk about it, for now I want to bring to discussion a topic that worries me even more because I am seeing it now.

Wars are a great problem for most people, they have a social impact that goes beyond the limits of those countries that are in conflict. Well, we could talk about real wars, armed confrontations, but there are also some particularities at the moment in terms of considering an area that even when it is not at war has very precarious or difficult social and economic conditions. This can be called an environment of war, because like these it can produce a massive migration of its inhabitants to other latitudes in search of improvement.

This is what has happened to my country, Venezuela.

Being in another country implies many things, which usually are not contemplated, it is something difficult to achieve stability, for different reasons, one of them is that when you leave literally fleeing your country of origin, you do not always manage to emigrate economically prepared to support time without working and that you do not lack the basics, so you need to look for a job quickly that allows you to live. ... here begins a great problem, for many of the migrants who are currently in Colombia, and I speak specifically of this country, because I know the reality, but I must assume, and not with the intention of generalizing, that in many places the same thing happens.

What is it that happens?Being in another country implies many things, which usually are not contemplated, it is something difficult to achieve stability, for different reasons, one of them is that when you leave literally fleeing your country of origin, you do not always manage to emigrate economically prepared to support time without working and that you do not lack the basics, so you need to look for a job quickly that allows you to live. ... here begins a great problem, for many of the migrants who are currently in Colombia, and I speak specifically of this country, because I know the reality, but I must assume, and not with the intention of generalizing, that in many places the same thing happens.

What is it that happens?

I propose it with real values, to exemplify it:

Here in this country the minimum wage is around 9 dollars a day, yes, I know in other countries that's nothing, but here it means something, that's why the presence of Latinos here is so great. The local currency is the Colombian peso (COP), and every day the common citizen earns about 32000 COP.

Well, with the arrival of Venezuelans who need money to survive, like everyone else, there has been a takeover by some merchants, that is, as you know many Venezuelans need, they take advantage of this situation and offer them a much lower salary than they would pay a Colombian. That is to say, they can easily offer up to half the minimum, and someone could surely tell me: not taking the job is enough .

My answer to this would be, if, in part you are right, but if you had 2 days without food, a family to feed, you are being taken away from where you live, would you really waste that one opportunity? It's a difficult situation, very difficult indeed.

Of course, after making this statement, which is something that is happening, I must say the following, to lighten this reading a little and not leave a bad vision of the Colombian people. In my case, I have done quite well, everything has its nuances, but I cannot complain at all, I have met spectacular people, very good people, and they are very honest and above all human.

However, if I have been able to know about those cases, fortunately they are not the majority of the merchants who do such terrible things, in fact, there are many who have provided great opportunities, I must emphasize that too, but the reality is that it seems that there will always be those who want to take advantage of the needs of others to make economic profit from the situation.

This is more than exploitation of man by man, it goes beyond economics, and reflects a great de-humanization by some, who I repeat, are not the majority but can be seen.
Venezuela is not at war, not really, but its economy is in a state that seems as if, as if, the shortage of many products is important.

For now I've finished this publication, I just wanted to share this experience, which generates a little bit of discomfort, not because it happened to me, but I can't imagine being in that situation, and you?

Can you imagine? Have you heard of similar cases?

Have you had to migrate from your country because of economic or social problems?