Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by badpun 1110 days ago
Some of those physicians (mostly young and female) take second jobs as prostitutes, because their baseline pay makes it hard to survive.
1 comments

What? I would like some evidence of that.
Here's a (part of) PhD thesis covering this subject:

https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&c...

It speaks about how, since most people in Cuba have roughly equal (equally low) salaries, prostitution is present in all strata of society. Example citation from the link; a prostitute speaking: "We're all on a survival plan, no matter who you are, if you're a doctor, a philosopher, a teacher, we are all pretty much the same, we make the same money, 20 or 30 cuc a month is not enough at all."