Think You Have it Bad? A Beer in Zimbabwe Costs a Million Dollars

Think You Have it Bad? A Beer in Zimbabwe Costs a Million Dollars

Photo: Richard Byron

 

This is a real picture of someone buying a beer at a country club in Zimbabwe. That is a cool million in Zimbabwe cash sitting on the table, arranged in $500 bills. So if you're complaining about the $100 keg you have to buy that used to be $80, time to shut up. Inflation in Zimbabwe is at about eleventy billion percent so ridiculous stuff like this happens all the time, inevitably causing the economy to transform into a "give me that beer or I'll hit you with this stick" system.

 

Remember, every "crisis" we have, there's a worse one going on somewhere else.

 

 

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