Closer to: fuel is slightly less practically free in Venezuela, but still unbeli...

Turing_Machine · on Feb 18, 2016

It's not quite so "unbelievably cheap" when the minimum wage is $13/month.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/venezuela-...

The minimum wage in the U.S. is somewhere around $1,200/month, so a rough comparison (gallon of gas as proportion of income) might be if gas cost $10.00/gallon here.

flubert · on Feb 19, 2016

Anyone know more about Cuba's $20 a month maximum wage?

https://www.google.com/search?q=cuba+maximum+wage