Avocado
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Curious minds wonder:We have been traveling inside Argentina a few months. I don't pretend to know what is going on but I read a lot of articles and news from this forum. I feel like the poor are suffering the most. They aren't to blame for what is going on but they are feeling it the most.
So, you know what grinds my gears about these Mileistas? It's like, easy peasy to be all "Yay, adjustments!" when your wallet is basically singing the cha-ching song or your family tree is a money forest. But for those teetering on the societal edges, life was a rollercoaster with Alberto, and now it's like they're riding the rollercoaster to Crazytown.
And where did the caste feel the pinch exactly? Last time I checked, they're sipping fancy drinks on Easy Street, while the working poor are getting a roundhouse kick to their incomes and livelihoods (as much livelihood as they had to begin with). People here jabber on about their Argentine buddies being cool with the agenda, but I bet those buddies are playing in a different sandbox than my in-laws down in Zona Sur, just one step above a "barrio popular."
Despite what online haters say, these folks aren't "parasites" as Milei's fan club likes to think. My sister-in-law is the real MVP, hustling as a domestic worker, scrubbing the mansions of the middle class and the richy-rich Argentines. With the New Year "raises," domestic workers now rake in a whopping $1.50/hr. She's working six days a week, raising her kid, shuttling him to school, and making sure he's not on the express train to Troubleville. She's the one swallowing the bitter pill of adjustment, not the fancy folks on this forum or the big shots in Milei's posse.
I'm not saying we're all villains here (well, maybe not most of us), but I see so many folks yapping about these issues like they're discussing the latest sci-fi movie. The average salary in Argentina? Oh, just a cool $530 a month, according to some article I read last week posted last on this forum. Millions are earning even less, slaving away full time for peanuts. Sure, they suffered under Alberto, no denying that, but now they're doing the cha-cha in the pit of despair under Milei.
As a wise man wisely pointed out, what good is chemo if you're basically killing the patient? That's my fear – the adjustment train never reaches us regular folks beyond the wild ride of dollar inflation, while millions like my sister-in-law are stuck doing the poverty shuffle. She's got my husband and me in her corner, but she's too proud to hit us up for help. It's like, come on, girl, we're here for you! But she's out there thinking she shouldn't have to ask when she's putting in an honest day's work. What about the rest of the peeps with families suffering just like hers? It's a real head-scratcher.
- Can you shed light on the political leanings of both her and her household members during the voting process?
- With wages hovering below $1.50 per hour (or less than $288 per month) for the past three years, how much meat were they able to afford?