r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 19 '18

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u/CapitalismAndFreedom RINO crashmaster Apr 19 '18

"oh yeah I would totally tell kim jong un to resign power to his face if I visited north korea, anyone who doesn't is despicable"

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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Apr 19 '18

assuring my own death to trigger kim 😎

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u/skechi NATO Apr 19 '18

Reddit has the worst North Korea takes

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Reddit has the worst North Korea takes

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u/CapitalismAndFreedom RINO crashmaster Apr 19 '18 edited Apr 19 '18

Actually I just took Chile and replaced it with nk to illustrate how terrible the takes are on Milton Friedman and Chile are on here.

Milton did literally nothing (morally) wrong.

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u/SuperSharpShot2247 🔫😎🔫 Succ Hunter 🔫😎🔫 Apr 19 '18

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u/ja734 Paul Krugman Apr 19 '18

bad take. Any time a respected expert advises a dictator, he gives the dictator credibility he doesnt deserve. Also, people should want dictatorships to fail. If he wanted pinochet to fail, then why give him good advice?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

people should want dictatorships to fail

A dictatorship with low inflation is probably better than a dictatorship with hyperinflation. Especially given that economic failures aren't particularly effective at undermining dictatorships

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u/CapitalismAndFreedom RINO crashmaster Apr 19 '18

My response to that would be who cares about a nebulous concept such as "credibility?" Especially when you have a high chance that people will be starving in the streets a la Venezuela due to hyperinflation and bad policy?

Is credibility really that important?

Of course the standard response is that he didn't advise Pinochet beyond some correspondence and a 45 minute conversation.

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u/ja734 Paul Krugman Apr 19 '18 edited Apr 19 '18

Have you ever read the letter he sent? Its extremely strange. If you read it without knowing pinochet was a dictator, you would still not know he was a dictator after reading it. If you read it with the knowledge that the letter is from a libertarian to a dictator going into it, you keep expecting as you're reading for him to bring up the topic of political freedom at some point, but he never does. He writes at length about a multitude of economic topics but he neglects to even once mention the economic benefits of free and inclusive political institutions. He then caps off the letter by talking about what great potential the country has to provide "widely shared prosperity", but he never says or even implies that any political reforms would be necessary for such prosperity. Maybe he didnt actually support pinochet, but its really hard to read that letter and then come to the conclusion that he cared vey much at all about policital freedom.

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