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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.

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[–] kid2908@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need an island. A tiny island full of progressives, safe from the rest of the world...

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Sadly they’re killing the whole world.

[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

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