Quote from: LUCKMCFLY on February 27, 2019, 10:25:45 PM

Quote from: byebyehi on February 27, 2019, 09:53:17 PM

Venezuelans have taken over an online game called runescape. They are farming virtual gold and selling it

Please comment so out of place ... If that were the case they were not dealing with humanitarian crises or with so many patients in a hospital without medicines. What I do not understand, is how people can be defending the indefensible, usurp the executive positions and think they are going to stay another 6 years? only in his micro brain can such information enter him.

Venezuelans try and get jobs paid in foreign currency, be it online games or anything that provides any amount of money in any currency that is not the Venezuelan bolivar, including bitcoin of course.

This is to survive the current situation. A full time job would pay you the equivalent of 10 USD, so naturally if you get an online job that pays you *anything* above that a month, you take it. Yes, even the menial tasks or ad clicks, or helping google train the AI for the pentagon to classify objects and recognize faces. Yes i have an account in figure eight, (formerly crowdflower) and clearly remember doing a few of those. I didn't mind, it brings food to the table, something socialists don't.

There is also solve captchas for money (pretty much defeating their purpose) and much worse. Some people resort to scams or MLM and ponzis. Most online games don't allow selling of items for real money, but the black market exists, and black market is something socialism makes you a habit of using, their promoters never stop to think of the consequences their destruction of the economy produces in human beings.

The Runescape thing is old, almost as old as that game. Game farming was usually seen as a joke about Chinese inmates, even Venezuelans would joke about it a decade ago. But socialism turned the joke on us, and many started doing it as a means to survive, at least when there are no blackouts or internet service outages, which are sadly very frequent especially outside of Caracas.

Some professionals are able to do freelancing from home, while others just leave the country. Several families have gone separate, mothers working alone in neighbor countries, hiding because they are overstaying, sending money back home for their children to it. It is not a joke i have seen it myself. The socialists have forbidden the sending of money without paying taxes, meaning you are supposed to use their intermediation always. Yes, even bitcoin. Good luck enforcing that, same as their attempt to replace the market with bureaucracy...