I highly recommend Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine. Milton Friedman trained these motherfuckers to pitch deregulation and privatization as the solution to economic issues. Without exception it accelerates inflation and poverty, and lets the government sell the country for parts. Chile, Argentina (again), Iraq, Russia. The US has gotten the shock treatment like 6 different times this millennium.
It still baffles me that some of these “world leaders” blindly follow a social science they clearly do not understand, while at the same time undermining HARD SCIENCE
It benefits them short term. No more no less. What good is hard science that hasn’t yet been monitized to their bank account right now?
sadly yes, you are correct… and I wish more people accepted this so we can normalize lynching corrupt politicians
Because a largely uneducated populace with a lack of critical thinking skills love simple sounding solutions.
That’s true, but in many cases these leaders bypass any democratic process, and instead use executive orders and military coups to force policy changes.
I learned about 9/11/73 from Shock Doctrine…fuck the Chicago school of economics
glares at Mark Carney
Wow, who could have thought that completely bullshit and long disproved economic strategies would lead to nothing good?!
Surely a war over the falklands will help turn things around? Failing that, maybe Daddy Trump will come to Argentina’s rescue
More likely he’s fleeing there at the end of his term
Peter Thiel is there already, laying the groundwork.
He’s starting with Vaca Muerta, which has “the second largest shale reserves in the world”
“Vaca Muerta” translates to “dead cow”
Even more fossil fuels and carbon emissions to power AI data centers, ugh.
