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[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

reactionaries say communism always fail while USSR went from a feudal hellhole to a superpower with the lowest inequality on the planet.

meanwhile every time ancaps try to implement their shitty policies the economy instantly collapses.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

capitalism can't fail because it is itself the failure state of communism.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Regardless of how many poor, homeless or incarcerated there are, "capitalism" doesn't fail because its goal doesnt care about those numbers

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Seriously, libertarians couldn't even set up a single town.

Previous attempts involve brilliant moves like building a town in the middle of the dessert where there's no water infrastructure and then refusing tonpay to have water hauled there and trying to set up a town in New Hampshire, literally one of the most easily habitable places on the planet, but refusing to conform to fascist trash disposal policies so the town got taken over by bears.

Every time a libertarian gets free reign to do whatever they want it seems like somebody making fun of libertarians.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

It's great because all the Austrian school ghouls are fully delusional about it. "Oh it's just that he removed the fake parts of the economy so obviously it looks smaller now"

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

Finally. Real capitalism has been tried.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Heeey I remember the "fake economy" buzzword

Amazing how they use it to mean public teachers and doctors and not for fucking stonks

A great phrase completely hijacked by the most repellent dipshits you can find.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

"You obviously can't see the surplus value generated by the Invisible Hand, it's invisible, you dingus!"

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Rollercoaster designs that go hard

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The best rollercoaster

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

People will truly choose this over communism and it's so depressing.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

'people' on r/economy consider this a good thing monkey-typewriter

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

The ghost dog I trust to run our nation's economy has failed me. He has failed us. He is a bad boy.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Wait, you owned that dog. Why'd you let him do it then? boohoo

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Poverty up 13% in 2 months. This gotta be some record, comparable with Tamerlane.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well, the 500 days plan, Balcerowicz's plan, die Treuhandsanstalt, etc. did just as well after all 😌

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Definitely, but not that fast, shock therapy in Poland and DDR wasn't so fast and there were social safety nets maintained from the socialist times or implemented ad hoc in fear of spontaneous riots if the people would suddenly wake up and see the trap.

Argentina have none of this, it is shock therapy right in the face of already neoliberal country.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

He balanced the government budget so its impossible to say if its good or bad.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

[Narrator's voice] "He didn't"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Turns out if you set government spending on programs to help people to zero you can just give all the tax money to your friends and have a balanced budget.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Broke: stagflation

Woke: shrinking economy and hyperinflation

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

This, but in ghost form:

this-is-fine

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Destroying industrial society by electing libertarians

Ted K was a bit of a libertarian himself iirc

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Destroying your economy to own the "zurdos" stonks-down

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Boris Yeltsin but weird

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

capitalism no productivity

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

they call him wolverine because he's chopping up his country's economic future

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Think he makes it through his entire presidential term?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't been keeping up, what policies did he actually implement to cause this?

It's surprising to see an economy fall over that fast, even with the catastrophic incompetence I expect from libertarians. I don't know if I could crash an economy that fast without putting in some serious effort.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

https://buenosairesherald.com/society/poverty-in-argentina-hits-57-highest-number-in-20-years-report-says

Few last paragraphs. Basically devaluation of Peso caused colossal price up of necessities on top of already galloping inflation, which in case of people already living hand to mouth kicked them into poverty literally immediately.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This guy I'd gonna have his head on a pike by june

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It wasn't very good shaped to start with, thanks to the previous neoliberals and inept libs

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Haven't followed it in the last few weeks but I think he like shut down all kinds of shit in the government and has been talking about not having a currency and using the US dollar

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Нужно больше пиццахат"

machine translation, its funny though

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