Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the past year is how well the economy has held up under the strain of war and occupation, even allowing for the fact that around 70% of the Ukrainian budget is covered by international assistance. Inflation has been kept under control, falling from 27% in December to 11% last month. GDP will grow slightly next year by 1%-2%.

Yes, shooting a dying geriatric with steroids to make them stand up is not a bad outlook

[–] swiftessay@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's ripe for some good old neoliberal shock therapy and mass privatization.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

BlackRock be like

[–] swiftessay@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dude, I'm going to show you how to get rich with this simple trick:

step 1: find a dependent capitalist country and destabilize its government

step 2: find a way to destroy it's public infrastructure. Just coopt a local comprador class and defund everything, but if all else fails just start a war.

And so on.

[–] Iceman@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Poor fucks are gonna get it twice in 30 years.

[–] swiftessay@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Well, I'm Brazilian so I can tell you: they'll do it as many times as we allow them.

Since the 90s we had at least three neoliberal waves in Brazil with mass privatization and austerity measures, punctuated by center-left periods of "it's ok to enrich banks but let's at least guarantee that people can eat" periods.