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[–] Rookwood@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Poverty figures made a record jump of 11 points in the span of six months.

All they needed is to sacrifice the poor. Poverty is now at 53% in the country.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a libertarian utopia!

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Inflation was 200% last December, poverty would be 100% without drastic action.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is some serious progress.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is terrifying news for the MMT crowd though as it's pretty good proof their theory is bullshit.

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In what way is Argentina inconsistent with MMT?

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MMT argues that government printing money isn't inflationary, and inflation can be controlled with taxes. Argentina had massive inflation while spending and taking on debt, and magically it's gone down as measures to stop that spending were implemented.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's 2.7% a month, which puts the inflation at 32%.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

And that's still the lowest it's been since 2021.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that right? I thought the general notion is that demand outpacing supply causes inflation. Doesnt printing money inherently increase demand? That's why the Fed raised interest rates to fight inflation in the US, it slows money down by making things more expensive (in simplistic terms).

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To MMT the printing of money is only inflationary when a country doesn't have additional productivity. Thanks to digital products and services though l, production is nearly infinite. Others argue that all printing of money is inflationary.

The Fed only really has interest rates as a tool, so they raise it when inflation goes up. It can fight inflation by slowing lending, which thanks to fractional reserve banking is the primary source of money being printed/created.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Seems I need to read up more on the specifics of MMT. It feels like you keep contradicting yourself between your posts, but maybe I'm just missing something?

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is indeed, most of the country is happy with this development

[–] josefo@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

Most of the country is under the poverty live genius, and the ones that are not, have no money no spend and that why a recession is happening. Take your head out of your ass.

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If this success lasts a long time, it will almost certainly guarantee a dystopian future for all of us.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Argentina only has 32% inflation, what a success!

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I know your being sarcastic but compared to what they were dealing with, 32% is actually a big success

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed, from 211% annual inflation to 107%? Astonishing success

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they ran out of paper and can only print half the money

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

We are actually not printing any, fiscal responsability it's the new moto