Marinez 20, who is 20 aged "does offer services" to other gamers playing Old School RuneScape, a hugely multiplayer online role-playing game RS Gold. Players across the world pay him with Bitcoins, typically, to undertake quests and build up the skills of their characters, whether they are miners, fighters, or hunters.

In Venezuela, where in 2019, 96 percent of the population made less than the poverty threshold that is $1.90 daily, according to an investigation conducted by an Venezuelan university, Marinez is doing better than the vast majority of.

Alongside the pocket change that he earns while working in a local pizzeria, Marinez earns around 60 dollars a month playing RuneScape, enough to buy rice and cornmeal for arepas as well as rice for his son and sister. But for Marinez working online isn't just about the arepas. It's about escaping, even if he thinks that the medieval game is boring.

One of the biggest economic recessions in the last 45 years, excluding a war, he and others in Venezuela have turned to playing video games to help them survive and possibly a way to move. It's not just about being in front of a screen buy runescape 3 gold. It can mean movement. Hunting herbiboars in RuneScape can fund the cost of food today as well as the future of the world for Colombia or Chile Countries where Marinez has relatives.