Claudia Martinez is a young woman from
Guatemala
she works in a pickle processing plant
in Pittsburgh and she's a temporary
worker and for most of the day she does
this can any of you guess what someone
who does this on a pickle plants
assembly line he's doing yeah she's
she's a brine displacer she removes a
certain amount of brine from the jars so
that they can screw the cap on and move
it on its way sounds pretty bad or a
pretty pretty unpleasant type of job
well it gets worse
Claudia works Monday through Friday
usually 40 hours a week and she doesn't
get paid til the following Thursday that
following Thursday she gets a paper
check and after work she drives down to
a check cashing place and she pays a fee
takes her about a half an hour to get
fiat currency and then she drives again
to go to a wire service place something
like Western Union to send some of that
money back home to her mom and three
sisters in Guatemala again more time
more fees usually ten dollars to say
send a hundred dollars back home pretty
bad right right if the Fiat system gets
worse than that though because claudia
has waited so much time unfortunately
she's organized she doesn't have to
resort to this but they're 10 to 25
million temporary workers living
similarly in the United States alone and
many of them can't wait to get that
money they can't wait all that time so
they take recourse to something called a
payday loan have any you familiar with
payday loan yeah we probably know it's a
very
expensive unpleasant thing because a lot
of time these people never get out of
the hole they're constantly paying more
and more interest it's a real sad
situation the current Fiat system Jamie
Dimon and his band of crypto capitalists
and their Fiat system is screwing these
workers and we need to fix it in crypto
thank you so a little bit of on me I'm
Greg - Gary and I'm a founder of temp
works software it's a software system
that my dad and I wrote in the early 70s
and I've been evolving from the early
microcomputers and now my oldest
children run the company were based in
Minneapolis but it's very simple on a
mature payroll system to simply add an
adjustment that would go to a crypto pay
card of course we have a number of
challenges in this system right now
first of all these pay cards aren't
universally available we need them to
work not just in London or New York but
also in a remote village in Guatemala
we're talking about tens of millions of
transactions a day that we would need to
be able to process for people to really
take advantage of so I have a lot a lot
a lot of challenges ahead of us whether
we can get a show of hands how many
people have worked a temporary job in
their life Wow well it's almost everyone
I was thinking okay these people only
worked per hour coding something but so
you know what a tough job is like
sometimes I feel my toughest job ever
was to get life on aetherium to work on
my Macintosh
so anyway temp works we've developed two
different products on the etherion
platform one is if you're familiar with
DocuSign or hellosign it basically
allows you to create a contract I have
different parties sign it post it to the
blockchain we put a note up on the
etherium reddit about that if you want
to check it out the other is the script
or payroll system and basically it's
it's wired together right now
I got into this in 2015 because I was
employing a large number of Filipino
Filipino virtual assistants who were
setting up sales appointments and and
every Friday it was me who was going to
coinbase and paying fifty hundred
dollars seventy-five dollars and these
people were perfectly happy to accept
crypto it coinbase users here how many
like the interface yeah no no hands that
I see it's pretty hard to do that using
most most client software for sending
crypto so the idea here would simply be
that our our system as it evolves will
simply be pay check just like any other
paycheck with an adjustment that instead
of going to your retirement account
would also go to your crypto account
it's something that we need to do we
need to do this for Humanity we need to
do it for all these temporary workers we
need to make it so that we're living in
a world where instead of Klaudia
spending all of our extra money and time
driving around dealing with the fiat
system instead she's studying Python and
aetherium and it's going to develop the
next generation of our crypto solutions
I'd like to thank the etherium
foundation Mexican government all these
wonderful workers who've made a
conference so nice I'm just blown away
by the quality of the other
presentations I feel real honored to be
up here but I think I think I'm really
eager to hear from any of you can help
me advance the solution and make it
become a reality faster thank you very
much
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