[venomsnake]

Why is walked up? This seems like major inefficiency. It is very easy to create a system (the building has elevator shafts after all) with pulleys and winch-es that could pull up and down the load.

You could jury rig some 40 horse power combustion engine from the auto morgue (almost free) as a power plant and you need 2 platforms to counter balance each other. It will not be safe for humans but workable for heavy loads.

[jasonwatkinspdx]

In places like this at the edge of even the developing world, labor is effectively free, the materials you'd need for a block and tackle aren't.

[njharman]

"Almost" free is not free. Gas is not free. Otherwise unwanted human labor is free.

[zelliot]

Gas is basically free in Venezuela. To fill up a car with 50L/13 gals was 4 or 6 Bolivars, which is about 15-20 cents at the black market exchange rate.

We had a driver for one day and he had to fill up the car. I bought him a can of Coke which cost twice as much as the tank of gas.

[zelliot]

It was possible to pay a motorbike taxi driver to take you up to the top of the car park. That saves about 10 storeys of walking. We did not though as we found lots of interesting shops, factories and people in the first 10 storeys.