Also, I've failed to mention something from the start of the thread, as I honestly still am not quite sure how to explain this to an outsider, but there's a reason behind the new minimum wage. It is set to 180 millions because the government said it'd be worth half a petro, and a petro is worth (according to them) 360 millions.
So what's petro? a crypto-currency backed by oil so that each is worth a barrel, except, it's not really backed, they just said the number of petros issued was based on the number of barrels, them being actually backed was what they tried to misdirect people into thinking that by wording. Even if it was backed, it is underground of a country with no rule of law, falling oil productions where most of the extracted oil is already committed to past deals (deals that can't even be fully fulfilled) so even if that was the case (and it is not), you wouldn't get your oil barrel if you asked for it.
Not only that, but at the starting point you can consider the petro to be public debt, issuing public debt requires the approval of congress, and it didn't get it. Maduro also claimed the petro had raised 5 billion dollars (more than any other cryptocurrency startup) but you can see the movement there were in the chain explorer.nemchina.com/#/s_account?account=NCGBBZKOTERO3EXMPPCNDNDXZQQJXBEMWWO7MB66
So, let's recap, you have an illegally issued debt that at first sight is backed by oil barrels (but isn't), that didn't raise shit despite claiming otherwise, the value of the token isn't determined by people buying and selling the petro but by the government saying it's worth as much as an oil barrel, and then the conversion of petro from dollars to bolivares is also at the government's discretion as there's no free market, or swap houses of currencies. So the minimum wage is based on the made up conversion from dollars to bolivars that is on top of the made up conversion of petros to dollars that is on top of an illegally issued currency. So let's go back a bit, let's pretend the petro is legal, that it is actually worth $60, and that the conversion to bolivares is accurate, that'd leave the MONTHLY minimum wage as $30.
But there's more! call now and receive a pathetic attempt to generate "traffic" for the petro. The country with falling oil productions, falling economy, and debt it can't pay offered india an oil subsidy if they used petro. They said that if they paid for their oil using petro they'd get a 30% discount on oil purchases. Unfortunately, india didn't bite archive.fo/QLwKB