It feels like that is part of what’s going on right now in the US. We are so overwhelmed with complete shit, while we move towards losing any form of regulation over business and the idea of democracy itself.

I feel like continuing to read it is going to force me on blood pressure medication. I knew that the US did a lot of ratfuckery to support regimes like Pinochet’s, but now I want to convert to Christianity just so I can believe there’s a hell for Milton Friedman to burn in.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    The part about Yeltsin firing on his own Parliament was very insightful. Again, setting the stage for Russia’s current exercises of Shock.

    I just got through the section on Russia. The idea that “Russians weren’t ready for democracy” - WTF! I’ve read so much Cold War propaganda about how much better the US because it was a Democracy™ and then the West pressures Russia to not allow elections? Western money interests are why we have Putin.

    I don’t get how any of these “economists” could live with themselves.

    • eightpix@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’m starting to think that the Nobel Prize for Economics should be renamed the Nobel Anti-Peace Prize.