Why is this being flagged? It’s the FT, it’s factual, and we can deal with misconduct by flagging the individual comments.
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Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina
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#42Moving to Argentina to avoid political instability is like moving to Nigeria to avoid black people. Argentina is way more politically unstable than the US and has a long socialist history. If I were an arch-capitalist techno overlord, I would move to Singapore.
He’s not really evading instability.
He’s evading consequences for causing it.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Hacker News Guidelines > What to Submit > […] > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wish this were enforced broadly. Tired of seeing politics on the front page. I come here to avoid that crap.
> Tired of seeing politics on the front page. I come here to avoid that crap.
Well, I quite enjoy getting this community's perspective on current events and political topics. I wish more people would care about the ways these things intersect with their areas of interest and expertise. One man's crap, I guess!
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#44Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.
As a New Zealander, I'd like to hope he 'did nothing' to get that citizenship, but I'm afraid it probably wasn't nothing.
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#45Why is this being flagged? It’s the FT, it’s factual, and we can deal with misconduct by flagging the individual comments.
Maybe dang can respond. I am curious if this was flagged by users or just censored by mods.
Flagging is generally a user action, that mods sometimes override. I think there's a karma floor but otherwise anyone can do it.
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#46> Thiel has purchased a six-bedroom mansion in Palermo Chico, a leafy central neighbourhood full of embassies. He has also bought land to build a home near Punta del Este, a Uruguayan beach town popular with Argentina’s wealthy, said one person familiar with his plans.
Great. So he is doing to Argentina, and now Uruguay, what he did to America
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#47“This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.” I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’
Yup corporations that don't think they should pay taxes are entitled. You didn't school the populace, build the roads, provide natural disaster relief, etc to make your company possible in the first place.
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#48The least he could do is keep his family in the country he’s helping destroy.
The whole point of destroying a country is to raid it of its wealth and to get out before it burns to the ground... No one has the honor to ride a ship into the ground. These days the captains would jump ship at the site of an iceberg and leave everyone to a certain death if there was a chance they'd lose 1 dollar.
The longer we go without a wealth tax the more we're allowing ourselves to be raided
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#49I wonder why he thinks Milei is going to bring continued change over time? Argentina's economy has been a mess as long as I can remember, decades and decades. Why is Milei so different that's he's willing to move there? He must really see a change he can exploit.
Argentina is, indeed, quite puzzling. They shouldn’t be a mess, and they should vote better, but, yet, they never get to have a stable period of progress.
Maybe this will help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_coups_in_Argentina
There are only two countries in the entire South America that DO NOT have the experience of having a democratically elected leader overthrown in a US-backed coup.
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#50so anyone have anything positive to say about him?
I’m glad he’s gone