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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Well I wouldn't call their original constitution a 'path of hope'. It was enacted by military decree by August Pinochet, a brutal fascist dictator, who the US backed and put in power, and Pinochet embraced the neoliberal economic policies we demanded that were decidedly good for us, but bad for the people of Chile.

I have a feeling our media interest in this has more to do with this constitution affecting the mining of lithium that we want than anybody giving any fucks about the people of Chile

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/a-new-chilean-constitution-could-mean-big-changes-to-copper-and-lithium-mining

[–]Feldheld 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Pinochets economic policies were what made Chile and its people the most prosperous in South America. The only people who arent happy with these policies are spoiled brats from rich parents who always think they know better than everybody else after they read one book or watched TV. Oh, and criminals of course who always think they deserve other people's money.

Pinochet was no doubt a brutal dictator but he saved the country from something much worse.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I agree with that.

But as much as I’m against communism, I do not approve of the marriage between business and state. I want to keep those two entities separate. And neoliberalism is a marriage between business and state, where the government picks winners and losers in the market place.

Free markets are the way to go.

[–]Feldheld 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pinochets policies had nothing to do with neoliberalism. He was mostly influenced by Milton Friedman and the Austrian School.

Neoliberalism is a leftist movement. It was an attempt by social democrats to save their leftist illusions after the end of the cold war and the demise of the eastern bloc.