Argentinian scientists working side jobs amid Milei's sweeping cuts

[Lanick]

I had a cab driver a couple of years ago, just pre-milei, who was an emergency room physician, and drove taxi at nights and on weekends.

I’ve met an Argentine architect a few years ago in London doing food delivery. Why don’t they say these also but just put the blame on Milei cuts?

 

[Ries]

I’ve met an Argentine architect a few years ago in London doing food delivery. Why don’t they say these also but just put the blame on Milei cuts?

not sure who "they" are, but as I said, this was pre-milei.
The argentine economy has been screwed up for a century, since the depression of the 30s.
I know a lot of very well educated doctors, lawyers, architects, and other professionals, who work several jobs, because the pay is so low.
I had a friend who was a lawyer, who, for decades, worked two full time government jobs at the same time.
And several friends who are professors, who juggle two, sometimes more, different universities.
Doctors who work at public hospitals make very little.
Doctors in private practice make more, but not everybody is cut out for that, or can afford it. Some specialties, like, for example, emergency room care, dont have a private equivalent for a monotributo.
Milei's cuts have definitely made a lot of people unemployed- I know several.
But they were layered on top of an already very low paid labor market.