hands down - Argentina
Most of the people commenting here have zero idea what's happening in South America
Am curious to understand the logic behind this and open to different ideas. The key objective is having a better tomorrow to become not (as) poor as you are today - not just staying alive at the price of staying as poor as today.
For example, you are born and grow up in a shack on a dirt street in La Matanza or rural Jujuy that lacks even basic sanitation. It is all you have ever known.
You go to a very basic public school in a poor area and come out of it computer illiterate and unable to access free higher education as a result of uncompetitive grades and / or other barriers such as cost of transport and inability to live for free without being forced into low paid work that consumes all of your time and is more likely than not to be precarious. Even then there are often times when your kitchen cupboard is empty as your pesos rarely last until the end of the month. You then think to start your own business to finally get ahead in life.
You want to start saving a few of your pesos from your job but they evaporate before you have enough to buy your start-up materials, assuming they don't get robbed from you.
You want to get a loan but are outside of the financial system so banks won't even look at you and if they do, want a crazy amount of interest. That is assuming you even think to ask them since no one has ever taught you what it takes to open a business in Argentina. Assuming you get lucky and run into some startup cash, given the amount of paperwork, legal and notarial fees, and efforts involved in registering and starting a business "en blanco" and need to prove sources of funds to be able to do anything, its probably only financially possible to do it "en negro" meaning the first storm that hits, you are outside the safety net of the state, not eligible for your 6 months of unemployment benefits, and worse still, subject to penalties and effectively being put on a "black-list" for doing it "en negro" that will keep you indebted and locked out of the financial system for years/decades to come.
How and where exactly do you make the leap for a better future other than sheer luck?
My logic is that at least in Brazil or Chile, I can work my butt off and over time, perhaps a lot of time, save my
money to build a future for myself as well as take advantage of various programs provided by the state without having as many obstacles from the state stopping me at every turn.
First and foremost, if I have access to money that can hold its value, I have options with or without the state.
