• FireTower@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It’s not a good thing. No one here is arguing that poverty is good. It’s that their current choice is ‘still pretty high inflation w/ high poverty’ is preferable to ‘holy shit that’s their monthly inflation w/ high poverty’.

    Low poverty is no longer in Argentina’s deck for the foreseeable near future. Inflation will rob the working class people of any thing they are given or earn.

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      8 hours ago

      The poverty was far lower before Milei started implementing austerity measures, so yes, by saying his measures are a good thing, you are saying high poverty is a good thing.

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        1 hour ago

        Only if you believe there is no direct connection between the devaluation of people’s savings paired with increased costs of goods and poverty.

        Hyper inflation in itself leads to poverty.