and that is the sound of Argentina being flushed down the toilet

Billionaires don't "plant roots", they're cosmopolitan - they dont see countries or borders, they go, work, and live wherever they please without hindrances.

To say that parasite planted roots anywhere is an insult to plants and humans together.

It still surprises me every day how much virtually every country is tolerating the speed running of evil, out in the open.

Argentina think this will make their population high value / quality.

I think the billionaires will just gut everything instead.

I don't get it. Ok, so you are willing to do away with safety, legality and basic human decency to attract capitals to your country. Fair enough.

But then why not drugs? Drugs are almost as addictive as AI and create less damage to the environment. But above all, unlike AI, drugs are very profitable, even if they face a harsh regulatory environment.

Give it some thought, Milei. True, you like theatrics and the Sinaloa cartel are not as cartoonishly evil as Thiel (they are probably more standard business-like evil) but I'm sure you can work out some effective PR stunt with them too.

Can reality please stop trying to outdo dystopian sci-fi

Argentina is becoming an increasingly interesting case study on how economic policy affects everyday life of a population.

Nazis in Argentina. I've seen this before.

Libertarianism fails faster than communism EVERY time they try it. I give it 5 years before theil is swinging in the gallows.

You guys remember Prospera and how that turned out? Argentina is gonna be that on steroids, gonna be absolutely awful for the average person there.

Someone explain why these aren't the prerequisite steps required if the ultimate goal was building a robot army.

Deregulate, and create a legal buffer from what "your" robots do and you. That's not my "army", that's my independent security force im contracting.

They blasted some guy by mistake? Accidents happen. Also they're thier own company.

Libertarian my ass

Providing free reign to authoritarians

¡Que se vayan todos!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2001_riots_in_Argentina

Milei was very upfront about where his vision is, so this is not surprising at all, unfortunately.

“The logic of 1945 still applies today.”

This is the Star Trek episode What Are Little Girls Made Of. and Peter Thiel is an android from the future trying to make sure his timeline comes to pass.

Genuinely horrifying that these sorts of people exist in the world with as much power and influence as they do. If these people figure out fully automated weapons, the future is gonna be a bleak fucking place.

Remember when we used to laugh at "Sovereign Citizens" who kept trying to get out of registering their vehicles & driving without driver's licenses & traveling without passports & stop paying their mortgages etc?

The core idea of the Network State traces back to the 1997 book The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State, which imagined a future in which a wealthy class of “cognitive elites” would leave the United States for more pliant countries that would allow them to escape taxes and laws. The combined wealth of these elites would be powerful enough to create a competition in which weak countries would compete for their patronage by giving them whatever they want.

No backsies.

Look at the good side, Theil is proving religion is by and for humans, some of which consider themselves better than other humans.