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The best job in Argentina today is to work as IT freelancer abroad, charging via a plc or similar, and transferring small amounts of USD to ARS (while avoiding tax and getting black market exchange rates)

It’s sad when a country’s talent cannot help in building the country up again. Too much disenfranchised thanks to politicians…

I live in next to Argentina (Chile), and every time I hear a story on their economy I am reminded of the fact that reality beats fiction. Apart from the chronic currency devaluation, the illegal but ubiquitous blue dollar, the 10+ different USD "exchange" rates (some say more than 30), the total tax rate >100% (according to the World Bank), I wonder how do they endure such conditions for decades. All my argentinian friends work for american companies remotely, if they haven't emigrated already.

Seems like more of a hassle for your employer to convert currencies. Weird that they wouldn't accommodate it.