For more of a guide to surviving collapses, this essay about the 2001 Argentine Financial crisis is pure gold. I have printed several copies and read it about once a year:
http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2008/10/thoughts-on-urban-surviva...
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#52> Last year millions took to the streets last year to protest the mismanaged economy and silencing of the opposition.
If you're going to have a multimedia presentation with polished production and very small amounts of text, you should be aware that it makes proofreading failures seem like a much bigger problem than they would be otherwise.
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#53Both form and content are superb. Very moving story. The crisis is real. We have to act now.
What are the best ideas proposed so far that might help them?
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#54I think it's great that this is being publicized and getting attention. It took many economic mis-steps to bring such a country to it knees (printing money, restricting prices with price ceilings, import taxes, etc), I kinda wish they would focus on all the economic errors they've made, so the rest of the world can learn from those mistakes.
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#55I fucking hate the modern web.
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#56This is not an article, it's a movie with subtitles. (It should have a [video] tag.) And it doesn't address how to survive when money is worthless, it just shows some vignettes from Venezuela that illustrate how hard it is to survive when money is worthless.
It's a hybrid article. Mixed media. Interactive web page. The categorization of movie seems to imply some dismissiveness as well.
The article isn't so much an instructional video on how to survive, and could be interpreted as ironic on some level. I don't think the title is beyond critique, but the content addresses how people are surviving by showing people who are surviving, even barely.
If people think conditions in Venezuela are not that bad, and there are people who believe that, then this should give them pause.
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#57Both form and content are superb. Very moving story. The crisis is real. We have to act now. What are the best ideas proposed so far that might help them?
Should have been a video, not a slow to load click through light weight social media snapshots format.
This is a very serious humanitarian and economic problem and the glossy reportage format is too glib and simplistic IMO.
More importantly, what will help is an end to the western siege on their economy because they are a socialist country https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/socialism-blame-ve...
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#59I wonder, if you go there can you still buy stuff for USD? E.g. how does the reporter survive there? I can't imagine a journalist would drop to that quality of life he describes just for his job.
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#60Inflation in Venezuela is over 25k%. People are jailed during demonstrations when they are not shot in cold blood. Children are dying of malnutrition. But for everyone on HN the biggest problem is the article format. Utterly and completely unbelievable...
Thank you.