when i was in iraq, the thing that struck me the most was that they still had rush hour traffic and people who were lucky enough to have jobs, still went to work everyday. because people have a desire to eat and have something left over, everybody from small shopkeepers to large businesses adapted to the new reality and tried their best to keep their shelves full by adapting and establishing new supply chains, etc. it was mostly the rich who could even afford to pay off smugglers in order to leave.