I remember when people had very different expectations concerning (Rhodesia)
Zimbabwe. From this a.m. NYT
Life in Zimbabwe: Wait for Useless Money
"...Zimbabwe is in the grip of one of the great hyperinflations in world
history. The people of this once proud capital have been plunged into a
Darwinian struggle to get by...."
“It’s survival of the fittest,” said Mrs. Moyo, 29, a hair braider who sells
the greens she grows in her yard for a dime a bunch. “If you’re not fit, you
will starve.”
"....In fact, Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation is probably among the five worst of
all time, said Jeffrey D. Sachs, a Columbia University economics professor,
along with Germany in the 1920s, Greece and Hungary in the 1940s and
Yugoslavia in 1993....."