The most worry-free life: **All-encompassing, poor and happy.
Do you remember that in the previous generation, the food that was exchanged for food stamps was only a bag of white flour and a bun. In the eyes of many, such a day is no longer over, but a Caribbean island, because of the United States, is known as one of the most special in the world.
A shopping mall of this size would be shabby in any developing country, let alone a wealthy person in Europe and the United States like Dubai. However, this is one of Cuba's most extravagant shopping malls, and there are only three such large shopping malls in Havana, which is a world away from Cuba's GDP of more than $7,700. In fact, Cuba implements a nationwide ration of grain**, production, finance, and all kinds of enterprises, all of which are state-owned, except for the 8% of the unemployed, most of the work is undertaken by **, so the monthly salary is very small, and each person's salary is less than 20 US dollars.
Until 2001, all major stores in Cuba would have a booklet containing the daily necessities of all the citizens around the store**, and each customer could redeem the same amount of food or other items by presenting a voucher issued by **, such as ** issued. From 2002 to the present, 500,000 private business licenses have been approved, but these licenses are aimed at tourists and foreign businesses because they charge five to ten times more than in mainland Cuba.
Everything from cigarettes, oil, paper to sugar. Moreover, Cuba has health insurance throughout the country, and most of the houses are provided, so even if the salary is less than five dollars a month, they can live a good life.
Since 1962, the Western countries led by the United States have imposed a blockade and blockade on Cuba, and so far, instead of giving in, Cuba has become more and more fierce, not only ranking 67th in the world in terms of human development indicators, but also ranking second in North America in terms of happiness, following Canada.
People living in Cuba can be said to enjoy various allowances, such as meat, poultry, fish, etc., which are not needed by each household at all, and there is some surplus; Each household has a maximum of $2 per month for electricity and phone bills, and the state pays for lights and kitchen supplies. Children under 7 years of age, patients, the elderly and pregnant women can receive 1 litre of milk a day, or if they don't have it, they can also **. They can even earn more clothes through points and even change them for free.
Anyone who travels to Cuba will find that there are many old American cars parked there, some of which are extinct and would have been displayed in museums if they were placed elsewhere, but in Cuba, they are everywhere. Of course, all this is the blockade imposed by the United States on Japan, plus the underdeveloped industry in Japan, so their cars have been on the streets for decades.
According to Cuban statistics, in 2011, about a quarter of Cuban citizens used the Internet, but the European Network Freedom Monitor believes that these figures are incorrect, and a poll conducted in 2015 showed that less than 5 percent of the population in Cuba had access to an open Internet, which is extremely costly.
For example, Cuban postal outlets charge $6-$10 an hour, and the internet speed only allows you to send and receive e-mails or documents above **kb. On the island of 11.5 million, there are 783,000 computers, and of these devices, 650,000 are from various ** institutions.
In this context, Cubans who can afford broadband have created a new industry, which is to share their accounts with others for 05 to 08 Cuban pesos. So, the streets of Cuba are full of Cubans, wearing school uniforms and playing games.
Although Cuba has many unique features, it also has extremely rich tourism resources, once occupied and colonized by many Western powers, is now also a multi-ethnic and multi-civilization coexistence situation, and the Caribbean islands have unique natural scenery, therefore, millions of European and American tourists come here every year.
In 2017, Cuba was awarded the title of "the most smiling country" in the world, showing that the country has no money and can impress thousands of travelers with a smile. In the world, in the first to five months of 2017, the fewest complaints were in France and in the United Kingdom.
This is because Cuba has a binary exchange rate system that divides Cuban and foreign tourists into two different expenses: one peso (about six yuan), where ten dollars for a meal is already common for a local. With an average of $20 per person in Cuba, this meal cost him more than half a month's salary, which is very expensive in pesos, but in the eyes of foreign tourists, it is simply cheap.
Believe it or not, you can still live so happily without a penny?