Every day, workers in Oceania receive salary twice, once in the noon and once in the afternoon. Usually, the afternoon salary is dramatically higher than the noon one while the noon one is astonishingly higher than yesterday’s afternoon one. After getting the money, people rush out their offices seeking for foods and other necessaries. In fact, they have a 2-hour rest after each salary payment merely for this purpose. Even this is limited since foods and other goods are more and more difficult to be found. Shops and salesmen refuse to sell anything because it is too hard for them to change the tags. It is especially hard for the poor because no one wants to lend anything. Even the rich choose not to hold extra local currencies; instead they exchange them to US dollars in the underground market.

A) Please list all social costs occurred under hyperinflation described above. Hint: Please only list what is mentioned above and provide facts accordingly to support your argument.

B) What do you think happened to those middle class residents who used to have some savings in local currency? Based on your answer, why do rich people tend to exchange for US dollars nowadays?