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Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite"
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#12Argentina has a population pyramid that actually looks like a pyramid hence why they could elect such a radical change of route. In this decade europe , east asia and even the US might be confronted with the issue of sustaining societies without a lot of capital or investment or workers. I wonder if they will take a page from Argentina (the US already did)
countries are not taking a page from Argentina. countries are taking a page from the United States electing someone like Donald Trump.
https://www.scienceofrunning.com/2017/05/the-roger-bannister...
the Roger Bannister effect
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#13The thing I see as worrying with Milei is that while he is an economist, and seems to be using economic principles to drive his thinking, he has also mixed in an unhealthy dose of culture war nonsense and other politics into his strategy. He claims almost all journalists in Argentina are corrupt and just write lies about him, which I find to be a suspicious claim. He also thinks that Trump is a wonderful and selfless human who is making sacrifices for his country and the same of Elon Musk. So he is obviously a very poor judge of character and it makes me question his own character.
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#14I'm as anarhist as any other wanna be erlang developer, but it's odd to see Trump mentioned in the context of taming Leviathan, when he promises to use military to deport millions of people out of the country under martial law kind of regime. I guess one persons libertarian hero is another persons statist opressor. I would not care less if not the military to use for taming the Leviathan wasn't biggest in the world a…
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#15I wonder if Milei could choose a (country + year) as the ideal model (or closest to it) for how a state should be run, what would he choose?
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#16Argentina has a population pyramid that actually looks like a pyramid hence why they could elect such a radical change of route. In this decade europe , east asia and even the US might be confronted with the issue of sustaining societies without a lot of capital or investment or workers. I wonder if they will take a page from Argentina (the US already did)
countries are not taking a page from Argentina. countries are taking a page from the United States electing someone like Donald Trump. https://www.scienceofrunning.com/2017/05/the-roger-bannister... the Roger Bannister effect
Trump's priority in 2016 was not deregulation, in 2024 it is. Hmm.
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#17Average Haskell programmer.
The state is essentially the Java monolith, and a Haskell programmer is never going to convince the maintainers to rewrite the monolith; garbage collection is the best they can do.
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#18Beyond the traditional dichotomy of right and left, it's always insightful to contrast real politics and media narratives with reality. Javier Milei is introducing several changes in Argentina, but it will take time to assess their effectiveness. As of now, some key issues remain: - The USD/ARS exchange rate is still tightly controlled by the state, which is neither libertarian nor liberal in practice. - There are no…
Regarding you first point, that's expected to change sometime during next year. Let's hope they keep their word.
Personally I don't think it would have been a good idea to let the value of the USD run free. If Milei and co. had done that from day one everyone would have rushed to buy dollars.
My 2 cents: I like that inflation is lower than ever, and hope that it keeps going down. I want our currency and country to be more stable. I want it to be viable, and believe we are on our way to achieving that.
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#19> "Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better"
The subtext here seems to be that if the Trumpian right understood Milei, they would not idolize him.
On the contrary, I believe that the Trumpian right understands Milei just fine: they're on board with his ideologies.
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#20I wonder if Milei could choose a (country + year) as the ideal model (or closest to it) for how a state should be run, what would he choose?
Probably current singapore or 80s Hong Kong