> Since you were young, what did your parents do during this time to put food on the table? Protect the family? At that moment I was 21 and was living in a touristic sea shore small city, in the summer months a lot of people goes there on vacation but for the rest of the year is pretty much empty.
My mother was a teacher and my father had the retirement from the police and owned a small shop selling herbs, flour, rice and whatnot by weight.
I was working on construction and distributing food in a truck at that moment while I was on the university.
Crisis didn't hit us hard, those weren't great times but we were fine, my father had chickens and a grew some food in the backyard, he did that even before the crisis, just because he liked it, not because or prepping.
For some people was worst, that resulted in good things and bad things.
Many factories started closing and the workers took control and continued working, after the crisis the business men wanted their factories back but the workers claimed that they abandoned them so now they had nothing to reclaim.
Along the country "bartering clubs" appeared, where people could barter stuff or services, some of those clubs created pseudo money that they could use among the club's members.
The problem with those clubs is that thieves also found a way to sell stuff that usually no one would buy if they stole it, like blankets, lamps chairs whatever, so the thieves started emptying completely all the tourist houses.
You could see all the tourist houses with their doors or windows breached, so owners started selling the houses.
As usual with any crisis, people with money and business men will make more money out of it.
The government printed some bonds to be used as money, they paid state employees with those bonds, each province had their own, in Buenos Aires they were called "Patacones".
People preferred real money instead of those bonds, so your real money could buy more than the same amount of Patacones.
Also, as people didn't have much money they started selling stuff they didn't needed as much, and if you had the money you could buy nice stuff real cheap, for instance cars or tourist houses
Although that wasn't a great time, it was not as bad as some depict it, and I fucking need to emphasize this
YOUR LIFE CONTINUES AS USUAL BUT WITH YOU BEING POORERThere wasn't people running with guns in the street, gangs raping children or mutant cannibals, you only could see normal people depressed trying to pass the crisis and hopping for better times.
The looting only happened the first days when there was some localized disturbs that ended up in the president escaping in an helicopter.
In the previous crisis, some before and some after I was born, the same happened, localized disturbs and looting the first days, and then just people trying to find a way to put food in their tables.
