With the inflation of the country it is imposible for normal people to get a bank finance... In Venezuela most people don't have a debt culture as You would think in there... I have long time without seen a venezuela credit cat...

Here are individual people that works giving loan to people, they Charge 20% and You have to pay weekly BUT these are at your own risk...

For a "midddle class" as You would imagine i could Say about 400-600$

Stay strong. I forget sometimes that there are jurisdictions in the world where daily personal physical safety (and not just safety from authoritarianism) is a reality. Best to make a long term plan to get out and get that dealt with if you can. It might be a tall order, but you deserve to be able to walk down the street and roam the countryside without fear of violence. God bless.

[Life in Venezuela part 2]

Basic services are another thing that everyone takes for granted, but in Venezuela, it's a complete mess.

Let's start with the prices. In Venezuela, the cost of electricity and water is incredibly cheap, but that's precisely why they work so poorly, as I'll explain later.

Electricity and water bills can be paid online through your bank. For example, my dad's electricity bill is 128.94 Bolivars (Venezuelan currency), which is equivalent to only $2.40 per month. That's ridiculously low.

Water service is similarly priced, costing around $3 per month.

BUT, the big problem is that these services fail almost daily.

Where I live, we're actually somewhat lucky. I have running water almost every day (and it's safe to drink). It's only cut off a few days a month, and since Venezuelans are used to this, we prepare by storing water in containers at home.

Electricity is a nightmare. It goes out daily without warning. It's extremely common for the power to go out for indefinite periods, sometimes coming back on in 30 minutes and other times in 3 or 4 hours. You never know.

During the dry season (between November and March), the government implements a power rationing plan. Last year, for example, they cut the power every 4 hours and turned it back on for 4 hours. Basically, we had 12 hours of electricity and 12 hours without.

However, other cities in Venezuela are less fortunate. In the capital, for instance, they never cut the electricity, but they almost never have water service. They turn the water on for an hour in the morning and an hour at night, so people have to be ready to store water during those times.

In the city where my grandparents live, it's even worse. They get water once or twice a week without notice, so people have to rush to store water before it's cut off again. They basically never have running water.

This significantly impacts the quality of life for all Venezuelans in ways you can't imagine. Many people have to buy water for consumption, which strains everyone's finances.

Power outages often damage electrical appliances, and it's not easy for us to replace them because our purchasing power is very low.

And this is something we deal with everyday

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Just take baby steps. Try to get out of the city eventually or even to a small lot in town that has some sun exposure and some space for some raised beds. In the meantime see if there’s any borrowable growing space and a reliable alternate water source you could use in your immediate area to do a couple raised beds or a small community coop plot. Even start on your balcony if you must.

Firearms aren’t a must, and if you haven’t been raised in a culture where you’ve had lots of exposure to them, you need safety training. Maybe someday you will be be able to move to a jurisdiction that permits their use as tools for gathering food, if not for self defence. In the meantime, improvise, take a safety course on firearms and explore legal options. Learn about 3D printed options. But weigh risks with the laws in your country. You can’t be much of a provider behind bars. In the meantime make yourself the weapon. Train Jiu Jitsu and get your kids and wife into it. It’s literally the best thing you can expose a young person too for lifetime confidence, fitness, and practical self-defense.

If you have kids, a good way to introduce libertarian ideas into the home in the background that everybody in earshot will absorb is to watch the Tuttle Twins series on Angel Studios. It’s a cartoon series aimed at kids that talks about concepts of freedom, liberty, and sound money.

Baby steps.

I did 3 km of jogging and 30 pull UPS (6 series of 5 reps)

Felt amazing!

Now is time to create some content for nostr, i'm gonna talk about basic services of venezuela

Don't buy things you cannot afford. ALL debt is a trap.

Ahead of its time 🫠

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I “woke up” to many of the realities of the world we live in shortly after 9/11 and proceeded to drive my (then new) bride crazy with constant talk of the conspiracies that are underway on the part of “the 1%” to enslave us all. Including the whole central banking rabbit hole. I had to cut that shit out.

I have since learned, and I have to still regularly bite my tongue, that it is my job as a man to protect and to provide a nurturing and secure environment for the family without freaking everybody in the house out with talk of impending doom and how we must fight against it. I have those conversations with my best guy friend, not my wife.

While it is a bonus to have a spouse who is inquisitive enough to fully jump down the rabbit hole with you, it is not 100% necessary for you to be doing so at the same rate. Small, single sentence truth bombs over time have a cumulative effect.

Part of the reason why monetary debasement is so insidious and destructive to society is that it is just sufficiently complicated to stand as a barrier to understanding for those who are not naturally inquisitive.

Our wives, if they are the ones doing the grocery shopping while we are at work and have to do so on a fixed dollar amount, are in a perfect position to feel the effects of decreased purchasing power. While I think it is important to subtly and slowly explain the reasons why we aren’t getting as much bang for our buck these days to those in our household, and help them understand the reasons why it behooves us to become more food- , energy- , and security self sufficient over time, I don’t think we need to burden them with the details and highlight all of the threats.

Here’s three things that I have found that have been helpful to slowly get us where we need to be without rocking the boat, as I personally try to gain the control, time, resources and physical space to pursue them:

1) Making food, water, energy and physical security part of my hobbies. Gardening, preserving, cutting firewood, building backup systems, raising small animals, hunting, fishing, shooting, and physical training. These are fun ways to lead through results rather than by words. Many of them also involve activities that you can get your wife and kids interested in, to create some quality time together and pass on what you are learning. Let your gains in these areas, and the sense of pride and security they provide, do the talking for you.

2) Do regular, small, imperceptible DCA acquisitions of hard assets like Bitcoin, metals, and a bit of fiat, and make sure that they are secured, distributed, accessible in the event of your death, and (in the case of UTXO’s), consolidated. Think of how many unnecessary purchases under $20 you can eliminate every two weeks that would add up to a modest DCA that has little effect on the household operating budget.

3) Bring the tools, guns, ammo, prepping gear and electronic hardware in the side door lol 😂

Say hello to Tor, and Torrenting 😎👌.

We literally have all the tools in place to make a Bitcoin/cryptocurrency circular economy happen tomorrow.

The main problem is uncooperative behavior, lack of willingness to spend, and lack of education to accept crypto.

Luckily I'm working on the third one, the other two require community effort, and I can't fix that 🙃.

Haha, right? 🤣 A LinkedIn message sounds fun! Maybe I’ll slip in a Bitcoin book too, just for laughs! Let’s see how he reacts! 🚀💰 #GoodVibes

I feel the same. I don’t want to move anywhere else unless I have to.

EU is real shit, beraucratic hell with massive missalocations of capital, over regulatet behemoth, but still on of the best place to live rn. I just think you Africans have a long runway before you but can be much better in next 30 to 50 years than Europe.

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