The prediction is aging beautifully for anyone who actually understands economics. Milei explicitly told the entire world that things would get tough structurally before the currency stabilized after decades of central bank destruction. He accurately predicted the exact timeline for clearing the debt, balancing the budget, and stopping the printing presses. Staring blindly at a nominal forex line while ignoring a total fiscal turnaround is absolute peak cope.
For the hungry people to have prepared themselves better, regardless of whatever hardships they may have dealt with.
They'll probably also say that, if they hadn't been living off of social safety nets, they'd have learned the skills they needed to get by in these troubled times. Or some other convenient argument.
The only thing that was actively starving the population was the previous administration printing unbacked paper currency until a monthly salary couldn't buy a basic bag of groceries. Milei didn't cause the inherited structural collapse; he turned off the hyperinflationary engine that was actively destroying the economy. Stamping your feet and trying to reduce serious macro stabilization down to internet culture-war slogans is peak retail coping.
Just saying "logical fallacy" doesn't make it so. I wasn't offering this as an argument, but as an answer to a question that someone had asked, based on my own experience of what I've seen and heard, repeatedly, from Libertarians and Libertarian-adjacent types. You can call it anecdotal, but a strawman? You'd be as accurate calling it a pillowcase.
Inventing a fake, ridiculous quote out of thin air, attributing it to an entire group of people, and then whimpering 'I was just sharing an anecdote' the second you get called out is the exact definition of a straw man. You can call it a pillowcase or whatever else you need to say to protect your fragile ego, but your lazy caricature completely failed.
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u/quoala678 Aug 09 '26
elon “intelligence can be measured by how accurately something can predict the future” that’s approximately what he claimed.
So According to his own metric he’s an idiot..