430 sats \ 4 replies \ @SpaceHodler 24 Dec 2023 \ on: What do you think about shock therapy? libertarian
This is the historic speech:
As for your question, Rothbard used to say shock therapy works better, because when the changes are slow, the old tends to creep back in.
I think people need to see the benefits of the changes. If you go slowly, they will not see much and they will think it's not working. Then at the next election they'll vote a collectivist in.
My home country, Poland, owes its successful transformation in the 1990s to the shock therapy applied by the minister of finance Leszek Balcerowicz. He met a lot of opposition too.
Sure, you will always achieve less than you have planned while fixing economy problems.
So you need to make big moves - to stay with something significant still, once the dust settles.
P.S. my tu gadu-gadu po angielsku: #291420
a tu taka niespodzianka ;)
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Good point. Shift your opposition's frame of reference to normalize what you're proposing, so even if half of it passes, both them and you see it as a success.
P.S. zaiste niespodzianka :)
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Btw even the bankers are protesting now.
More specifically, against the privatization of Banco Nación:
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I think people need to see the benefits of the changes. If you go slowly, they will not see much and they will think it's not working.
Can't wait to see the copium from leftists and status-quo-conservatives. Will they admit they were wrong or will they find excuses until forever?
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