cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/2426645

If elected president, economist Javier Milei has pledged to eliminate government spending on research and shut down the environment and health ministries.

  • fraksken
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    341 year ago

    These are public electoeal promises? who would vote for that?

      • @starchylemming
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        371 year ago

        sure buddy , its those pesky researchers ruining the country!

        • @[email protected]
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          301 year ago

          Everyday I see rich researchers driving Ferraris and chugging champagne. Why can’t they be more fiscally responsible like our dear oil barons?

      • Otter
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        1 year ago

        If we’re cutting the ministry of health, might as well cut all funding altogether

        • @[email protected]
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          101 year ago

          Just go all the way and abolish the state. If statists hate states so much just let the anarchists run things already.

  • kid2908OP
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    261 year ago

    From the article:

    To tame the crisis, Milei has proposed not only privatizing science, but also closing the environment and health ministries, and abolishing the current public-health and education systems. The anti-establishment politician has even floated the idea of allowing people to sell their own organs for profit. On environmental issues, he is equally provocative, calling climate change “a socialist hoax”, and saying that a company should be able to pollute a river as it see fit. “From his perspective, any regulatory intervention by the state represents an attack against market freedom and, therefore, against individual freedom,” says Maristella Svampa, a sociologist at the CONICET-funded Center for Documentation and Research of Left-Wing Culture in Buenos Aires.

      • @9point6
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        Unfortunately, so far whenever that has happened, non progressives have generally pretty swiftly ended it.

        It seems that it needs to be a very big island of progressives to stand a chance of survival.

  • roguetrick
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    171 year ago

    Eat the middle class huh? I’m sure it will do wonders for the Argentine economy.

  • @JoeKrogan
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    Hopefully this idiot doesn’t get in. Of course he is an “economist” 🙄.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    “Simpletons! Yes, yes! I’m a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We’ll build a town and we’ll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they’ll be dead! Simpletons! Let’s go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!”

    -A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.