How Hyperinflation in Venezuela Led to Clan Warfare in Old School RuneScape : Planet Money : NPR

Two groups of people who would never meet in real life collide in a world of wizards and dragons. They battle it out in a low-tech video game, and it shakes the lives of a lot of real people living in a collapsing economy. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

NPR's Planet Money on X: Why were Venezuelans gold farming in Old School RuneScape? Because the gold in the video game is MORE STABLE than their country's currency. / X

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Episode 731: How Venezuela Imploded : Planet Money : NPR