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0 pointsbedhead12y ago0 comments

Argentina, for years, has chosen an economic policy something akin to a semi-functional alcoholic. I'm not quite sure what about their economic ideologies are somehow forced upon them despite decade after decade of failure.

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dasil00312y ago· 2 in thread

You don't understand corruption then. High inflation and a low official exchange rate that no one can actually exchange at without insider connections are a way for those with control of the government and currency printing presses to slowly but steadily siphon the wealth of the masses directly to themselves.

bedheadOP12y ago

You're getting the cause and effect mixed up.

Is it probably disproportionately worse in Argentina compared to the US? Yeah. But it's not innate in Argentinians. Corruption, generally speaking, is a function of something else, usually something that's inherently unfair or unjust. Argentina's economic policies created these incentives to drive people increasingly towards corruption, not the other way around.

dasil00312y ago

Where did I say that the state of affairs is innate to Argentina? In any case, that's a red herring.

You can't simply state that the economic policies unilaterally led to corruption as a self-evident truth without some supporting evidence. Clearly officials who have a history of corruption are more likely to institute new policies that benefit themselves as well. Economies are not so simple that causality is easily stated in an absolute manner, especially in so flippant a manner as "corruption […] is a function […] of something inherently unfair". That's probably the most hand-wavy statement about such a grand topic that I've ever read.

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