55 pointsby mmarian2 hours ago18 comments
  • rbanffy16 minutes ago
    Why is this being flagged? It’s the FT, it’s factual, and we can deal with misconduct by flagging the individual comments.
  • laweijfmvo27 minutes ago

      “This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.”
    
    I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’
  • SlightlyLeftPadan hour ago
    The least he could do is keep his family in the country he’s helping destroy.
    • onlyrealcuzzo41 minutes ago
      The whole point of destroying a country is to raid it of its wealth and to get out before it burns to the ground...

      No one has the honor to ride a ship into the ground.

      These days the captains would jump ship at the site of an iceberg and leave everyone to a certain death if there was a chance they'd lose 1 dollar.

  • arjie18 minutes ago
    Interesting. I could speculate as to why, but has he said anything besides the anti-christ thing? That thing wasn't illuminative in any way. So is it:

    * fear of new wealth taxes in the US styled in the California way

    * fear of being shot like UHC CEO

    * legal retaliation from a new adminstration

    Perhaps a little of each but what weighting? And what else? Personally, I'm definitely working to ensure my wife and children have OCI status and their Taiwanese citizenship locked in so that we have escape hatches.

    • pan6915 minutes ago
      > so that we have escape hatches

      From what? Those 3 things you point out above?

      • arjie9 minutes ago
        My wife is Taiwanese and I'm Indian. I'm certainly not stupid enough to read the average HN/Reddit thread on Indians and believe that things cannot rapidly change around me.
  • freitasm17 minutes ago
    Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.
  • comrade123410 minutes ago
    He still has to pay USA taxes no matter where he moves.
    • ceejayoz6 minutes ago
      Sure, but he'll have optimized those away already.
  • ceejayoz31 minutes ago
    History sure rhymes.
  • WheelsAtLarge19 minutes ago
    I wonder why he thinks Milei is going to bring continued change over time? Argentina's economy has been a mess as long as I can remember, decades and decades. Why is Milei so different that's he's willing to move there? He must really see a change he can exploit.
    • rbanffy15 minutes ago
      Argentina is, indeed, quite puzzling. They shouldn’t be a mess, and they should vote better, but, yet, they never get to have a stable period of progress.
  • qsxfthnkp232222 minutes ago
    Is Argentina the new Florida because Palantir is destroying America?
    • rbanffy20 minutes ago
      It has been a prime destination for nazis for a long time. I guess they have a friendly government now.
  • PedroBatista30 minutes ago
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  • idle_zealot34 minutes ago
    It's pretty funny that he's fleeing the US for fear of instability and rising anti-oligarch sentiment to Argentina. As though their collapsing society will treat him much better when the shit hits the fan.
    • rbanffy18 minutes ago
      He can fly out when it bounces off the fan but well before it splashes on him.
  • copx9 minutes ago
    Moving to Argentina to avoid political instability is like moving to Nigeria to avoid black people.

    Argentina is way more politically unstable than the US and has a long socialist history.

    If I were an arch-capitalist techno overlord, I would move to Singapore.

  • paulpauper12 minutes ago
    so anyone have anything positive to say about him?
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  • jprd36 minutes ago
    Good.
  • Aboutplants41 minutes ago
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