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 I remember inflation times in Brazil, as a kid. The record was 80% in a month.

The middle class with bank accounts had DAILY interest (we called it 'overnight', in English)
It was never enough, everybody lost, but at least not ALL. 
Poor people were much more screwed up. With no bank accounts, paper $ would evaporate soon.
Payday had humongous lines in supermarkets. More people descended into misery than the normal.

Old people, or people unable to do math, were clueless. How much 1000 is worthy now, how much the new bills are worthy? These were hard problems for them. 

There was an official index unit that the government would define every month, to allow people to sign  long term contracts in those indexed units, as the official monetary unit was meaningless. e.g., one month the index unit was 2000, the next month it was 2600. Dolarizing in thought or informally was another option, but what will happen if the USD itself inflates? BTC? Gold?

Today, what would happen? Some positive developments, some negative. 

We never had access to gold bullion, there were no BTC at that time, neither internet or remote work. More people have bank accounts. 
But drugs, family degeneration, oligopolies, govenment surveillance & control.. all of these existed but were much weaker then.