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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).
Old people and poor people got screwed, but poverty is down? How does that work? And if it's going well, what's this about donkey meat? That's a sign of underlying food price inflation. Not all of that can be traced back to global factors.
If enough poor people die, I suppose the poverty rate will go down.
I'm not an economist so I don't know the details but I know he froze pensions when the inflation was still high so pensioners in practice saw lower pensions. He also cut funding to food banks so people relying on them got hit. Inflation affects everyone in the country so I imagine when it went down salaries caught up with prices for a lot of people taking them above poverty levels. Donkey meat is only a sing of read meat prices going up which may just mean that a lot of meat is being exported which brings money to the country. I'm not saying that's what happening, just that it's possible to see lower pensions and donkey meat while people are being lifted out of poverty.
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.
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.
Well if all the poor old and disabled people died, then yes logically poverty would be down
Poor people can be mass murdered and poverty will go down, you do realize?
He might have found a different source of money if not from Trump.
What's dishonest about it? He did lower inflation and poverty but the way he did it, including help from US, is controversial. He did need help from Trump to do it but he is exactly the guy that could get help from Trump. What if a leftist leader secured help from Europe to save his reforms? Would that also mean their reforms were bad? I also think they already paid their debt to US which help their reputation and makes other investments possible.
As an amateur economist I do feel like he made a lot of right decisions though he's clearly corrupt. Dunno if this will work out in the long run as corruption will outweigh the gains of right economic decisions.
Absolutely. Everyone was expecting the corruption but I think most people didn't expect any of the right decisions. No one knows what will happen long term but so far things went surprisingly well. Or course all the suffering he caused is terrible but at least for now there's something to show for it.
Did anyone expect the rockabilly?
tbis.
It's unfortunate that it's always the poor and the elderly, the rich rarely get thrown under the bus..alas they're always welcome in some other shit country, like the US, so they have a way out, the poor, not so much.