I don't know how people are making it to the end of the month. I still get ads from Argentine companies/grocery stores/easy/etc. and will be coming to visit family and friends soon, and it's just insane.
If I had stayed instead of moving next door to Brazil, I would have lost 20.1% of my purchasing power, on top of all the purchasing power lost since Milei entered office. (this also assumes we believe INDEC's numbers, and I think they've been cooking them like they did under Cristina given how expensive food alone is, yet the increases don't seem to reflect this)
Brazil has lots of problems too, don't get me wrong, but the fact that the power stays on in the summertime, and that my bills don't skyrocket each month is such a stress reliever. My medications are a fraction of the cost they were in Argentina (One medication in particular is $41.100 ARS here vs $513,694 ARS in BsAs with OS discount), even though I now pay full price as I don't have an obra social, and grocery stores, Amazon, etc. actually have sales here, not fake "sales" where they jack the price up and then put items "on sale" at the old retain price, and appliances, furniture, etc, hell, even electronics are cheaper.
Just another example to give folks an idea: the Colgate toothpaste I like is $8,578 ARS at Farmacity per tube right now, and the exact same size, brand, everything, and it's $2,370 ARS here. Milei, Caputo, and the Caste have Argentines over a barrel and I'm surprised the delinquency rates on consumer credit are only 10%. When will Milei be picking up his Nobel Prize in Economics?
Wasn't the whole motivation behind crashing the economy is that it would lower inflation? All this suffering and inflation is still 3% a month (more if you include things people actually consume) and there seems to be little to nothing to show for it. I have no subsidies on my electric bill, ran AC 24/7 last month, and paid half of what I did in CABA in the middle of the winter (I didn't dare turn the space heater on) and the power actually stays on here. Weird how "zurdo marxista Brasil" has managed to have a functioning economy, yet Milei can't spend more than 2 weeks in Argentina before jet setting abroad to accept some other fake award. Maybe if he stayed in Argentina a bit longer he'd see that things are not "marching according to plan" as Caputo likes to say.
