What makes life expensive?

in #hive-1503292 years ago

Sometimes anything makes sense, prices get higher every day because of inflation and war, or even if it just depends on the area we are living in and how much we earn, it seems that the most we earn the most we spend.

It's complicated to talk about money in different countries because of our different wages. The salary from people all over the world varies a lot, depending on how developed that country is. For me, paying 12$ for 8 nationals' beers is like stealing in my face, but for someone in Europe or United States could be the average price of beer.

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In Venezuela, or at least in my city, a good beer price is around $0.50 to $0.70 per beer, that's a nice price and you can drink a lot!

On Saturday I spent time together with some friends at a bar located 10 minutes from my house by car. And it was incredible that with $10 you can get drunk and enjoy yourself all night, but in other bars you need to spend at least three times more for the same amount of licor (or even less...).

Latin America is less expensive?

is a kind of perspective, because if you earn $2500 to $4000 living in Venezuela or other country in SA would be a paradise, but the wages here do not pass $300, and you have to add the lack of health plans and security.

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Other example is the cost of food, like here a salad could cost like $3 to $4 and on United States it cost $8, at first impression you think in my country is cheaper, but if you take in mind the minimum wage from both countries you will see that in Latin America it could take more than the 50% of your total wage if you eat 1 salad every working day, but on USA i would be just 10.5% based on a $1,500 wage... Crazy, doesn't it?

Economics and politics always are an issue, I'm tired of the centralized banks doing whatever they want with our money. The greatest thing about Bitcoin is that we control it, and everyone can be part of it!

Right now, we are in rough times, and it is hard to hold our assets, everyone has their necessities, and it's understandable, but we all know this winter will pass away and if we leave at least something in our wallets the future us will be grateful!

Tonio out
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