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This guy seems like a decent writer. Apparently, if I hired him at US rates, he would be wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. Why isn't there more remote work going on?
Because they just enacted a law that allows the government and corporations to force employees to go work in the fields due the food shortage.
Things have changed a lot since this was written in December. I live in Caracas, there's massive national food shortages. Now you can't have 3 meals a day for a month with 100€, and would spend quite some time finding it (on the black market). Last time I saw sugar, it was around 3€ per kilo. Edit: If you want a realistic picture of how is life today, read this piece, written by a foreign journalist that actually liv…
Pretty insane that things can get so desperate that even hard currency can't get you 3 meals.
Things have changed a lot since this was written in December. I live in Caracas, there's massive national food shortages. Now you can't have 3 meals a day for a month with 100€, and would spend quite some time finding it (on the black market). Last time I saw sugar, it was around 3€ per kilo. Edit: If you want a realistic picture of how is life today, read this piece, written by a foreign journalist that actually liv…
>Now you can't have 3 meals a day for a month with 100€ Pretty insane that things can get so desperate that even hard currency can't get you 3 meals.
Things have changed a lot since this was written in December. I live in Caracas, there's massive national food shortages. Now you can't have 3 meals a day for a month with 100€, and would spend quite some time finding it (on the black market). Last time I saw sugar, it was around 3€ per kilo. Edit: If you want a realistic picture of how is life today, read this piece, written by a foreign journalist that actually liv…
Plus we've got a 3 month old baby, who luckily is exclusively breastfeeding, because baby formula is practically non-existent.
We had to pool about $60 to buy a sack of sugar in the black market and divide it among a bunch of family members.
Things are starting to look a lot more grim as time passes by and you realize that the government doesn't have the will to fix things and they are not going to go peacefully either. The outcome here is most likely going to be a violent one.
This guy seems like a decent writer. Apparently, if I hired him at US rates, he would be wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. Why isn't there more remote work going on?
I have a few friends who hired programmers remotely, they had to fly down with cash to pay them, no other way to get them money. Eventually the situation got too dangerous despite the incredible wage arbitrage they were getting by paying in US dollars. (too dangerous for the employees who were getting robbed frequently, and the bosses to carry the cash down there)
It used to be pretty easy to open an account in Panama or the US from Venezuela, don't know if that has changed. The thing is getting the funds for the initial deposit.
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>Now you can't have 3 meals a day for a month with 100€ Pretty insane that things can get so desperate that even hard currency can't get you 3 meals.
It can happen anywhere there's fiat currency and long supply lines.
I'm going to call it now: the Venezuela crisis is not incompetence after all. It's the first steps of a highly competent plan to do what several other communist governments did last century: bring about the death of a large percentage of the country's population.
I don't lightly advocate military intervention. I think it's almost always the wrong thing to do. But I'm advocating it now. The communist government of Venezuela needs to be taken down hard and fast, before this turns into full-blown genocide.
That was last year when the crisis could still be attributed to incompetence, mismanagement. The situation has changed considerably since then. I'm going to call it now: the Venezuela crisis is not incompetence after all. It's the first steps of a highly competent plan to do what several other communist governments did last century: bring about the death of a large percentage of the country's population. I don't ligh…
This guy seems like a decent writer. Apparently, if I hired him at US rates, he would be wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. Why isn't there more remote work going on?
I have a few friends who hired programmers remotely, they had to fly down with cash to pay them, no other way to get them money. Eventually the situation got too dangerous despite the incredible wage arbitrage they were getting by paying in US dollars. (too dangerous for the employees who were getting robbed frequently, and the bosses to carry the cash down there)