check it out. I rebloged it but seemed ineffective
https://steemit.com/english/@hlezama/my-curie-story#@doomsdaychassis/re-hlezama-re-doomsdaychassis-re-hlezama-re-doomsdaychassis-re-hlezama-my-curie-story-20180514t013755230z
the crazy part is this guy is a professor. Much smarter then myself and a curie vote is more than he makes a year. That is not right. They are dealing with 13,000% inflation last night when i spoke to him. I spoke to another Venezualan this morning and he said they were at over 13,600% today. That is amazingly fucked up. Put it this way. If you had $100,000 in savings it would be worth pennies overnight at that rate. That is the sad sick face of socialism right there. He said they have to stand in bread lines for hours and are allowed to buy 2 items. That is disgusting. I feel so bad for this guy. He spent all his @curie money getting his son out of the country.
Yes they are, as are many other second and third world countries. The value of a US$1.00 stretches amazingly in these countries.
I too reblogged a post by a brand new Brazilian Steemian, @carlos8049888, who withdrew only $4.00 from his Steemit account. He works in the insurance industry and earns the equivalent of US$1.70 per MONTH.
With that US$4.00 from his Steemit earnings, he was able to buy groceries like chicken, meat and cheese that they had not been able to purchase for months.
M.O.N.T.H.S.
That's the power of what this Steemit platform can do.
Life changing.. For everyone. For all of us.
I couldn't have said it better. I think i sm going to sit down in the next couple days and write out a serious post about this. It really does piss me off.
more stories need to get more attention and build a community to help. In a way, it is great that he can use the steem or SBD to buy groceries, but, on the other hand, HODLing them will pay him a lot more in the future, so, can we come up with a better solution than just spending it all?
Wow, those numbers are crazy! So sad, and yes, very disgusting. What these people have to go through to just eat some bread, its heart wrenching. And he was so selfless to spend all that on just getting his kid out of there. Thanks for sharing this information, I had missed what you had written about him. Definitely going to follow him, he sounds like one hell of a man, and anything I can do to help, I will do!