Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite"
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#2Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42267248
It's also paywalled, but riffing on the headline: why is your contempt for the state different than mine? "Intellectual Property" must be enforced by the state, no single entity can stop all thefts of "Intellectual Property". I personally find copyright limitations far more of a problem than the Pure Food and Drug Act, or the Voting Rights Acts, or Affordable Care Act.
Can I defy the state on issues of "Intellectual Property" and count on your support? If not, why not?
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#4Average Haskell programmer.
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#5Argentina 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)
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#7Beyond 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 significant incentives for exports. Only imports.
- Many Argentinian unicorns and startups are incorporated abroad (e.g., in the US) and show no intention of returning.
Moreover, Milei has proposed appointing a highly corrupt judge, Ariel Lijo, to the Supreme Court [1].
On a smaller scale, when my offices in Argentina needed to import three laptops for software engineers, the shipment was blocked due to the mail courier limit of USD 1,000. This cap is now being raised to USD 3,000, but such constraints highlight the ongoing barriers to conducting business.
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#8Beyond 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…
You don't understand, he's not corrupt, he is misunderstood, otherwise Milei wouldn't be proposing him.
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#9Beyond 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…
My two cents even tho I'm afraid this thread might become a political battleground:
I'm from Argentina and 30 years old, of course he led us to a recession but for the first time in my adult life I can keep prices in my head and I know next month they'll be pretty much the same. Some people who never experienced +10% inflation in a month can't even imagine that and I understand it. I for one like this stability, dunno.
Regarding your second paragraph, I work for a US company as well and I've been dealing with the mess that is just getting your hard earned money here. Only few people are aware that we still are mandated to change our dollars for pesos at the rate that the government says. Of course nowadays it's not that bad because that rate is almost the same as the one you get in the famous "cuevas", the black market exchange places. But in 2022-2023 sometimes the difference between those two were almost 100%. So you had to deal with tons and tons of cash, it was a nightmare.
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#10I'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 and literally is in the business of exporting money for the whole world to use.