• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It’s gone from less than half of the population being in poverty to over 60% being in poverty since Milei has started implementing his austerity measures.

    So it sounds like exactly the opposite of what you’re claiming is happening.

    But it’s fine. People are starving but it’s okay because austerity somehow is always a good thing and fuck those people, they were going to starve anyway. Probably.

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      Lowering inflation when it’s too high is always a question of short term pain for some people to get long term benefits for most people.

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        4 days ago

        Just as long as YOU aren’t the one who is chosen to be unemployed and homeless right?

        It’s always acceptable for others to make these sacrifices of course.

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          You’re not wrong. There’s probably a better way to stabilize Argentina’s currency which won’t lead to as much suffering. But no one presented that better way.

          Peronists have been doing the same things for decades and it led to 40% poverty. Milei ripped off the band-aid and it led to 60% poverty. But it probably paved the way for lower poverty in the future.

          If you find a way to lower inflation (which helps everyone) and make the poorest people in society equally prosperous, I’m sure they’ll give you a Nobel in Economics for it.

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        Most people are in poverty. 60%. “You’ll do better in the long term” is not very accurate when people are starving to death.

        This is the most ridiculous attempt to defend something that is causing suffering on a scale of millions that I have seen in a long time.