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by jordanb 237 days ago
Argentina wouldn't be "destroyed" by a currency devaluation. But Milei wants to keep the Peso strong so his upper/middle class supporters can keep buying electronics and going on international vacations.. at least until the next election.
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Normal productive people doing normal stuff reframed through the lens of pettiness and jealousy.
Keeping middle class salaries artificially high while destroying high value industry and increasing debt isn’t pettiness.

Are you Argentinian? Do you even realize this is at least the third or fourth time in the country’s history where this exact scenario has happened?