They want to have their chocolate and eat it, too.

Not so! There's a lot of snobbery with things like chocolate because adults want to distinguish themselves whilst eating what's considered a "childish" sweet, and chocolate makers aren't exactly going to correct them when they're willing to pay twice the price for that privilege.

There's plenty of good cheap chocolate out there (at least here in Europe). You can even get decent stuff at the supermarket; Tony's isn't bad.

You can usually get expensive chocolate for pretty cheap right after a holiday is over from supermarkets or convenience stores (CVS/Walgreens). I'll buy enough to last until the next big holiday (Xmas, Valentine's, Easter, Halloween).

In communism everything was a luxury, unless you were a part of the elite. They had different stores then the masses.