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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 21 Dec 2023 freebie \ parent \ on: Milei Starts Privatization news
that's what I mean with "purely principled arguments fail".
in a vacuum world, sure! But we don't live in a vacuum world, and the actual one is full of a host of tyrants.
For south american countries, those US corporations and the US empire they're in bed with is by far the larger tyrant; they are the reason why the resource-richest countries in the world are reduced to producing cheap raw materials to export to the west.
This happens in a currency constantly devalued by the fiat system in place in service of Western governments, keeping wages and prices low so you can pick up lithium, beef, and wood on the cheap, while they make 0 cars or computer components (they can't. The IMF, i.e. an arm of Western corporations and governments, doesn't give them money if they try. Bitcoin does fix this.)
THIS privatization sells the little they have from one tyrant to a bigger one.
We need free markets to fight exactly this.
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and you realize this isn't free markets? this only exchanges local corruption for international corruption.
which are related anyway; the corrupt self-enrichers on a local stage are merely getting paid off for kneeling before the larger tyrant. They receive the right to enrich themselves by doing the bidding of Blackrock and the US government, who "pays" them by giving them IMF loans (of which they then pocket a cut themselves), and not coup'ing them. This is Milei.
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