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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 65 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago

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

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months 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.

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"

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago

Finally. Real capitalism has been tried.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

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

Rollercoaster designs that go hard

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Аргентинские горки

wow im not original and someone already wrote an article with this name.

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Harajukum@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago

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

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

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

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 8 months 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.

[-] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

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

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months 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.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

Broke: stagflation

Woke: shrinking economy and hyperinflation

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

This, but in ghost form:

this-is-fine

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago

Destroying industrial society by electing libertarians

Ted K was a bit of a libertarian himself iirc

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago
[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Boris Yeltsin but weird

[-] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

capitalism no productivity

[-] heyoheyoheyyyy@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Think he makes it through his entire presidential term?

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 8 months 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.

[-] TheaJo@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

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

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months 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

[-] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

"Нужно больше пиццахат"

machine translation, its funny though

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