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[-] taanegl@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

"When we hit rock bottom, we will bounce back,"

Any historic precedent for a country applying massive austerity measures during times of poverty, which has then "bounced back"?

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Translation: we must kill the poor so that we can be rich.

No one is talking about how these extreme austerity measures will affect the most vulnerable people

[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Children lose very measurable nueral brain growth you don't get back if malnourished in the beginning. We're literally making a new class of measurably different human...

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. Plenty of evidence of it crashing systems and worsening recessions from the Great Depression though, compared to spending programs like the New Deal.

That said, there isn't a Great Depression, at the moment. Selling off public assets to foreign neocolonialists will produce short term benefits...

For their new oligarchy, since ancaps sure as fuck aren't reinvesting those funds into public education and infrastructure.

Um, i suppose you could apply the effect of the black plague on middle ages europe.

Estimated to have killed 1/3 of all people. There was a subsequent rise in wages/worker bargaining power attributed to the lack of labour supply.

I suppose thats an example of rock bottom and coming back with some benefit.

I wouldn't call it 'bouncing' back though, more like struggling on with a sliver of silver on those grey clouds. Not an adviseable course for a country to take.

[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I see it like sand in a sand timer that's been tipped. We get little crests and collapses cycles as the whole structure shifts and grows.

Good illustrative example.

I'm always hesitant to assume growth will always reassert itself in the end though. You know the old saying, 'past performance is not an indicator of future performance', type thing. After all extinction is a thing.

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[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Let's see if his escape helicopter bounce back

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] splonglo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the economic miracle of...Somalia??

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[-] gloss@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 year ago

"When we hit rock bottom, we will bounce back," he said.

Or maybe you'll just go splat.

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[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

We should normalize hating anyone of thing with hundreds of millions in wealth. The disparity must be called bs everywhere.

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Argentina is where a surprising amount of zero day exploits are written.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Qualified tech workers combined with non-existent earnings prospects make for a perfect recipe for an exploits industry. Those things allegedly pay pretty well if you can find them.

It's also a great recipe for brain drain, with aforementioned qualified tech workers moving out of the country.

[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Can you ppl just block the milei cult members? Stop trying to argue with these kids

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