argentina like industrious clamored a woodturning company these machines haven t produced anything for years but it s not because they re broken there s just no one left to set them in motion industrious camel was founded over thirty years ago by a german couple in a suburb of pointers iris in good times they had twelve employees now there s just one. there were three years ago the company had a downturn in kenya but even before that we felt the crisis for example a lot of our work is done in china these days. the services come from outside the country they can produce cheaper and have better conditions than we do here it s hard to compete we have tax burdens of all kinds and the currency the argentine peso gets devalued all the time. although the banks paid into the state retirement fund for decades their pension is still very low only eight thousand pesos apiece the family can barely make ends meet. a dozen former