Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: This forum is, mostly, an old fart's relativity widows gathering place. Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:53:19 -0800 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 70 Message-ID: <637A85AF.5718@ix.netcom.com> References: <63787316.29AB@ix.netcom.com> <9232dd9a-6a10-4d75-be03-3619adea87edn@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e12879ecb48bd6b71445ec420d0f47eb"; logging-data="3766243"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX192Fi3F/Z9rVntnKa3/RcG3gtAsqZzNj5o=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:SbfpZHkWv1PruZ5g5sLBQRsGTvk= X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 221120-2, 11/20/2022), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:595782 Richard Hertz wrote: > > On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 3:09:00 AM UTC-3, The Starmaker wrote: > > > > I'd be screaming too if I lived in Argentina with their 100 percent > > Inflation rate! I heard someone bought a single jar of peanut butter and > > had to made monthly payents on it. > > > > > > How many monthly installments on a dozen eggs? > > I know that's very difficult for any person living outside Argentina to understand how to live with very high inflation rates. > > But we have lived for nearly 70 years under such context, except during 1992-2001, when we pegged the $ARG to the USD (1 to 1). > Such neocon experiment produced a SINGULAR behavior of the entire economy: We TRANSLATED the inflation rate to USD pricing, > so services, houses, cars, etc., experimented an increase of 140% during that period (in USD). > > Any "developed" country's accountant couldn't survive in Argentina, because inflation IS A NATIONAL SPORT. We even export > specialists in finance to MANY countries, where people are appalled by just a 10% annual CPI increase. > > What nobody gets easily is the following: > > 1) Argentina's monetary system has been dual for more than 50 years: USD are used here as "reserve value", which is treasured by > people and held in safe boxes, into the houses or in bank's accounts in Uruguay, USA or caribean banks. Meanwhile, ´people read > any value in $ARG and, automatically, translate it to USD. That's a MENTAL ANCHOR, which prevents people to become crazy. > > 2) Marking a stark difference with ANY other country, Argentina's labor workforce is highly unionized. We have more than 1,500 > different unions which, either together or separately, negotiate salary increases up to three times a year. > > Then, a race between salary increases and inflation is permanent (sometimes salary wins, sometimes inflation wins). > > This doesn't happen in YOUR country or in any European "developed" country. How are you doing with your inflation rate? Can you > pay all your bills?. Bitching because of gas or grocery increases? > > We don't. I remember that buying a coffee at a bar in 1981 costed me 1 USD. And this price barely changed for the next 41 years. > Same with car's gas (1 USD/liter:: 4 USD/gallon, steady for 40 years). Or 3USD for 1 Kg chicken's breast. > > If you want a fair comparison, our prices and average salaries are the same as in Russia today. Ukraine 2022 is a disaster, because > almost all services and food DOUBLED the price in just 8 months (because of the war and heavy debts). > > People here are mostly happy, even when 30% lower class lives on welfare (it always was, as IN YOUR COUNTRY). > > As Argentina is one of the US bitches, we even plagiarized YOUR Constitution and state organization, 160 years ago. We had our > Trumps and Bidens, which alternate in power. > > And we DESPISE RELATIVITY. We have our own model of REAL WORLD, and you live in a fucking fantasy land that will implode soon. > > And you don't have enough food or energy for 320 million people. $1 = 150.5300 Argentine pesos China is going to take over Argentina... you need to go back to Germany. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.