one time a student pirated some expensive CAD software and learned it, that student went on to become the purchasing agent for a company and guess what software the company purchased?
the software that was learned already.
$100 student lisc was pirated and that pirate purchased 10 license at $5k per.
I’m sure the full service tourist hotels and resorts accept US & Canadian dollars, Euros and Yen. When I was there we exchanged dollars for Cuban Unified Currency at 1:1 rate. I traded us currency for pesos with the images of Che but tourists all spend CuC.
Most of their farm land is devoted to cash crops, tobacco, coffee, sugar, the trifecta of colonial slavery. They still run steam trains on sugar cane farms on the west side of the island, there’s ancient soviet tractors working the fields too.
This is one of the reasons Havana is safe af and San Juan is high crime zone
safe but tolerates 0 dissent or unsafe and protests in the highway chased the governor off the island (and it’s still high crime and fucked)