Well look, what can I tell you about Venezuela. Here the salaries of the public employees are less than $ 2 monthly and they adorn it with some monthly bonus, being able to reach maybe 10 or in the $20 in good cases. How do you see that? Who lives on $2. Families have to work miracles to survive. That is why many prefer to do anything on their own.
The national currency is the Bolivar but the country is dollarized. Public companies pay in bolivars and private companies pay in dollars and everything in business is in dollars.
The gardener and the cleaning lady are paid in dollars. Many have had great entrepreneurial ideas and have done well. The economy is crazy, although the situation has improved a lot. At one time you could not get basic necessities. You had to stand in line to buy some of them and sometimes you couldn't get them. You had to import those products from other countries. Now you can get everything for some time, now you can get everything and you can choose, which you couldn't do years ago.
But for a large part of the population, many things are out of reach. The consumption of proteins has decreased too much, in some families it is almost extinct.
There was no gasoline during the whole time of the pandemic, these days the situation has improved. Many have not been able to keep their cars and have had to sell them, because it is so expensive.
All that on the one hand, on the other hand there are families that still live well. Everything is very unequal.
But the Venezuelan is a warrior and very intelligent and has found a way to keep going and has never lost his sense of humor.