UmmmCheckPlease [he/him, comrade/them]

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  • Lmao “peer rival”. Like others have said, China should be offended to be referred to as a ‘peer’ or America, and laugh at the idea of America as a ‘rival’.

    “Oh look I’m at a track meet and the racist asshole with rich parents, who constantly shoots themself in the foot, is my competition in the hurdles! Oh they just took their spikes off because they’re “not based”, and fired their hurdle coach because “they know how to jump and run the best of anybody. Big jumps!” And now they’ve taken the starter pistol, loaded in a live round, and blown their big toe to kingdom come. However they’re now technically standing at the starting line, seemingly able to race. Wow. What a peer rivalry.”





  • Section from his Wikipedia page:

    Advising in post-communist economies

    In 1989, Sachs advised Poland’s anticommunist Solidarity movement and the government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. He wrote a comprehensive plan for the transition from central planning to a market economy that was incorporated into Poland’s reform program, led by Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz. Sachs was the main architect of Poland’s debt reduction operation.

    He and IMF economist David Lipton advised on the rapid conversion of all property and assets from public to private ownership. Closure of many uncompetitive factories ensued.[33] In Poland, Sachs was firmly on the side of rapid transition to capitalism. At first, he proposed U.S.-style corporate structures, with professional managers answering to many shareholders and a large economic role for stock markets.

    That did not sit well with the Polish authorities, but he then proposed that large blocks of the shares of privatized companies be placed in the hands of private banks.[34] As a result, there were some economic shortages and inflation, but prices in Poland eventually stabilized.[35][36] In 1999, the government of Poland awarded Sachs one of its highest honors, the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit.[19] He received an honorary doctorate from the Kraków University of Economics.[22] After Poland’s success, his advice was sought by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his successor, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, on the transition of the USSR/Russia to a market economy.[36]

    Sachs’s methods for stabilizing economies became known as shock therapy and were similar to successful approaches used in Germany after the two world wars.[20] He faced criticism after the Russian economy underwent significant struggles after adopting the market-based shock therapy in the early 1990s.[37][38][39]