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Milei so far seems on the right track to me ๐Ÿ˜ฎ Positively surprised From reddit: ### These weren't austerity measures. This was a deregulation executive order. To give further context, these are some of the regulations it removes: The Shelves Law: a law that forced supermarkets to stock their shelves in a particular way. For instance: not stocking more than 30% of a shelf with products from a single company (which, in days of shortages due to high inflation and price controls, meant most shelves looked like this), or stocking them in order based on price. The Law, a law that gave the state power to set prices of goods and control that those prices were met in every supermarket and grocery store, however big or small. This has been used by the government to shut down small businesses before (who don't have the same margins as big store chains and therefore need to sell their goods with higher prices) and gave us postcards such as union men and high-rank officials going through shelves controlling that prices were "correct". It removes the Price Observatory, which was the organization that ran these ridiculous operations The Fire Management Law, a law that was passed in the context of wildfires that went uncontrolled by the government "due to lack of resources" and which were blamed by officials on "land speculators". It banned the sale of land affected by wildfires for 30-60 years or to use it for real estate or farming. This meant that if a wildfire made it to your farm and razed through it you wouldn't be able to raise any crops on it for years and you couldn't even sell it for a loss. Protections for Aerolรญneas Argentinas over flight routes in the country. The previous government ran an aggressive campaign against any competitor to the state-run Aerolรญneas Argentinas in local flight routes, with only two other airlines operating at the time in the country. Flight prices in Argentina are, therefore, very expensive compared to similar flights elsewhere (and even with all these protections the state-run airline has been running a massive deficit over the last 15 years). Regulations over "obras sociales". In Argentina if your employer wants to pay for your health insurance they can't hire one directly. They have to run it through a union-run "obra social". Even if they choose to offer a different health insurance than the union-run health insurance, they still have to pay the fee to the union as though as they were offering that one (and then pay the other health insurance company they do want to offer their employees). The same runs for contractors: even if you're a contractor you have to pay health insurance fees to a union-run health insurance, even if you don't use it, even if you choose not to pay for health insurance. This decree allows companies, employers and contractors to directly negotiate with health insurance companies bypassing unions' fees. There were other measures that removed price controls over goods and services that created huge distortions in Argentina. For instance: Caps over health insurance fees. This caused health insurance companies to freeze doctors' fees for the past 2 years in a context of +100% annual inflation, which consecuently led to medics either refusing to take appointments from people with health insurance or demanding a co-pay over it Rent control measures. The Rent Law and its modification discouraged renting so bad that at one point there were less than 2000 apartments up for rent in the City of Buenos Aires for a population of +3 million In any case, the decree is many, many pages long ###
I logged into facebook this week and it's just aweful ai generated spam for pages and pages that you can't even disable. How does this company survive?
However much you think you love AI. Governments will love it 10 times more. Making a list, checking it twice. Gonna find out who's naughty or nice. image
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