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Post by
Rankkor
I'm thinking really hard. I am getting more and more convinced that somebody (probably David) said your name here at some point.
nope. I didn't really knew her name till she invited me to the SWTOR trial.
Speaking of it, I may be able to join sooner than I expected elhonna =) the government is raising the salaries of everyone by 30% starting on may 1.
Of course, that also means people will raise the cost of everything by 40% making the raise meaningless, but Chavez "claimed" they he would prevent it. Lets see if his word is worth anything or if its made of Poo-poo like him.
If it does indeed worth anything, I may be able to finnaly join SWTOR for real by mid may or early june.
^_^
Lol, the failure of across the board wage increase. Don't feel bad, half the people at the occupy wall-street who lack a basic understanding of economics wanted the same thing. "You should just give everyone a $10 raise" And then they magically expect everything to remain the same price, despite the fact companies are now suddenly paying all their employee's $10 more an hour.
This has been a recurring problem in venezuela for the past 20 years (even before chavez took over, it just got worst after he became president)
WARNING HUGE WALL OF TEXT AHEAD.
Every year on may 1 the salaries of everyone are increased by a specific % (it varies from year to year though 30% is a first, never before had the increase been this big)
However, the cost of EVERYTHING goes up by nearly double the % of salary increase. So, in what has to be one of the biggest ironies ever, the more money we make, the more poor we become. If last year minimum wage was 900.000 bolivares, and the bills would chew up to 600.000 bolivares, This year your salary is 1.200.000 yet the bills are now 1.000.000
So, you make more, and at the same time, became more poor because of it.
These were all examples I'd have to do some serious research to give you more solid data, but it should give you an idea of how things work over here, and that's not counting the price gougers, and as they're known colloquially on the streets, the "scavengers" who do even more to ruin our economy.
Price Gougers are specific companies that restrict the sells of a specific product, so that they can sell it more expensively. For example, on 2009, the Kraft company, stopped distributing mayonnaise. And so did Mavesa, and all other major brands of Mayonnaise. What resulted was that there wasn't any mayonnaise in any supermarket. All of these companies gave BS excuses regarding why weren't they distributing any but it was just a ploy to make money. why?
because after 2 months were there was no mayonnaise in the country (other than imported ones sold in the black market at 7x the cost) they suddenly started distributing it again, ohh but in very limited supply, an as such they had to sell it at 3x the cost. And then 5 months later, they started distributing normally, and at normal cost.
This is just one example, but just as they did so, the same has happened for most consumable products such as butter, eggs, milk, flour, salt, and specially sugar.
Then there's the "Scavengers". A scavenger is when the black market smugglers, go EN MASSE to all supermarkets on a specific state, and buy ALL of a single product, to deny the people that product.
Say, milk, they go to every store, and every supermarket, and get every singe package of powdered milk, and liquid milk they can see, and buy it all. By cutting off the supply of milk, they now proceed to re-sell it back on the streets at even 4 times the normal cost "because its scarce"
I tell ya, the "its scarce" BS excuse is used EXTENSIVELY across the nation by unscrupulous people who just wanna squeeze as much money out of the people as possible. And of course the authorities do nothing to stop this. Quite the opposite, since the customs and police started being replaced by Officialists, corruption and bribery are the norm, and cops just look the other way when scavengers go to pick stores clean to re-sell everything.
/end-rant.
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240140
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
WARNING HUGE WALL OF TEXT AHEAD.
Elhonna should start all of her posts with that ;)
Fix'd
Post by
Rankkor
WARNING HUGE WALL OF TEXT AHEAD.
You should start all of your posts with that ;)
only when applicable :P I know not everyone is curious about foreign politics, so whenever I discuss all the crap happening in Venezuela I put up that disclaimer.
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xlanadenx
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Post by
Interest
WARNING HUGE WALL OF TEXT AHEAD.
You should start all of your posts with that ;)
Lol yes.
Post by
Rankkor
and
here
is the secret on how to make a successful Seth Mcfarlane show.
Post by
Azazel
True bros.
Post by
Interest
Try harder Lan.
Post by
557473
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Post by
OverZealous
Wow, the Bin is so active
O.o
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557473
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Post by
OverZealous
My childhood is wounded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0_-aVaEyP8&feature=relmfu
My childhood has been destroyed by Youtube, Facebook and 4chan, to be honest - nothing can hurt me anymore.
Post by
Azazel
Wow, the Bin is so active
O.o
It's because nobody wants to tell me their names.
If somebody's looking for me, I'm in the corner over there, crying and watching weird alien porn.
Post by
557473
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Post by
OverZealous
Wow, the Bin is so active
O.o
It's because nobody wants to tell me their names.
If somebody's looking for me, I'm in the corner over there, crying and watching weird alien porn.
Like you always do. But well, at least you know my name - I guess that's something lol.
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Azazel
... I forgot.
Post by
Patty
I'm so going to miss being neighbourless... :(
Post by
ElhonnaDS
As opposed to normal alien porn, Azazel?
Post by
Azazel
Yeah. I couldn't find the Ron Jeremy one.
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