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[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago (6 children)

"When we hit rock bottom, we will bounce back,"

Any historic precedent for a country applying massive austerity measures during times of poverty, which has then "bounced back"?

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Translation: we must kill the poor so that we can be rich.

No one is talking about how these extreme austerity measures will affect the most vulnerable people

[–] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Children lose very measurable nueral brain growth you don't get back if malnourished in the beginning. We're literally making a new class of measurably different human...

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No. Plenty of evidence of it crashing systems and worsening recessions from the Great Depression though, compared to spending programs like the New Deal.

That said, there isn't a Great Depression, at the moment. Selling off public assets to foreign neocolonialists will produce short term benefits...

For their new oligarchy, since ancaps sure as fuck aren't reinvesting those funds into public education and infrastructure.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Um, i suppose you could apply the effect of the black plague on middle ages europe.

Estimated to have killed 1/3 of all people. There was a subsequent rise in wages/worker bargaining power attributed to the lack of labour supply.

I suppose thats an example of rock bottom and coming back with some benefit.

I wouldn't call it 'bouncing' back though, more like struggling on with a sliver of silver on those grey clouds. Not an adviseable course for a country to take.

[–] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I see it like sand in a sand timer that's been tipped. We get little crests and collapses cycles as the whole structure shifts and grows.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good illustrative example.

I'm always hesitant to assume growth will always reassert itself in the end though. You know the old saying, 'past performance is not an indicator of future performance', type thing. After all extinction is a thing.

[–] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The sand castle analogy is why I think that saying works, past performance doesn't indicate future, every 'now' is a new sand castle, its a bit taller, has more weight on one side from the last shift, its a bit wider... it will fail but and it might look very similar, or it might fail a new way and really take it down.

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Let's see if his escape helicopter bounce back

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] splonglo@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Ah yes, the economic miracle of...Somalia??