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This is of course extremely biased meme. The reality is that so far Milei achieved a lot of what he planned for. The main issue in Argentina was huge inflation and out of control public spending. Both ruling parties were unable to address this for years so people got fed up and elected Milei as a kind of protest leader ("politicians can't help us so fuck it, let the whole thing just collapse"). Just how tired of constant economic crisis running for decades everyone was is another story.
So Milei won and did what the previous governments didn't want to do: cut spending. He got inflation under control by sacrificing big chunks of society. Old people got screwed, poor people got screwed but so far his plan of "short time suffering to achieve long term stability" seems to be working. Inflation is down, poverty is down, foreign investment and trade looks good. The question is no longer if Milei's reforms will collapse the economy or not (they didn't) but if the reforms will work long term or if the improvements will be short lived and not worth all the suffering it caused.
Like most people here I hoped that Milei's politics will explode in his face and we'll have a clear proof that the ideas sold by right wing populists are bullshit but it didn't happen. The jury is still out on Argentina but anyway, each country is different and even if it will work there long term it doesn't mean guys with crazy hair are good for the economy (as we can see globally now).
Are you sure you're being honest with this review? Considering how the US had to bail him out? Without that, his policy WOULD have exploded in his face.
They said poor people got screwed and poverty is down in the same sentence. There's no way this argument is in good faith.
Well if all the poor old and disabled people died, then yes logically poverty would be down
This is a serious economic strategy labeling people as "useless eater", you know who called it that? Nazi Germany. They called it "Unnütze Esser"
(lit. "useless eaters" or "useless mouths") Similar to life unworthy of life, a designation for people who dont or refuse to work, people with serious medical problems or disabilities, and other Untermenschen not deemed to be useful to Germany. It was used in the 1938 children's book Der Giftpilz by Julius Streicher, and in Philip K. Dick's book The Man in the High Castle and its television adaptation.
This sounds like “rich people are ok” where their “Wall Street” is doing better but skip the rest. They talked about trade and foreign investment, not generally concerns of the common or poor person.
Yeah I mean they accused the meme of being biased while ignoring the fact that people are being forced to eat donkey meat. Definitely not someone who cares about others.
Poor people can be mass murdered and poverty will go down, you do realize?