About 10% of Argentina's electricity comes from nuclear power plants. But libertarian President Javier Milei wants to privatize the state-owned nuclear energy company.
So Milei appointed a 23-year-old internet libertarian activist, Ezequiel Acuña, to run the state nuclear company.
Acuña has ZERO experience in nuclear energy. He graduated high school in 2020 and started studying political science in college, but dropped out of the program. He never formally studied science, or even management.
Acuña is also being paid a starting salary that is 10 times larger than the average salary in the private sector, which he and Milei worship, as libertarians.
Acuña has never worked in nuclear energy or anything related. His only "qualification" is that he tweets libertarian propaganda in support of Milei. And the Milei regime thinks that is enough.
This is actually existing libertarianism.
https://xcancel.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2047485764423106793
Okay don't laugh at me because I personally think I should be permanently barred from a decision maker position and I hope someone eliminates me immediately should I ever be in a position of power through some sort of mistake, but at the same time my curiosity is making me wonder who is this aimed at? Because I certainly will not learn about how to run a state, why would I need to know that when I know I won't be doing it?
This is perhaps the most paradoxical aspect of socialism I've personally encountered ever since I've been reading about it. Why do I need to know all this stuff, if at the of the day I'm just supposed to do as I'm told? At the very least I'm certain that not a single person has ever seriously considered anything I've said and I don't blame them because not everyone is fit to be an advisor and yet no organization wants me when I offer them to do the most rudimentary tasks like mopping the floor? There's plenty of advantages of having me as I require no compensation for my labor, but that's not good enough either it seems.
In a way this is very good tho' because it means there must be plenty of eager recruits. So things should be going well enough.