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Перепост допису bytebuster: Трампологія

 А ось вам гарне пояснення економічної стратегії московського агента, інфільтрованого на посаду американського президента.
Якщо комусь не ліньки, можете порівняти з qassab'ологічними дослідженнями на тему образу мислення рашистів (за теґом «кацапологія») і їхню сліпу віру у гру з нульовою сумою. І спробуйте знайти десять відмінностей.

Matthew Chapman: Believe it or not, Trump's insane proclamation that he will keep tariffs in place until there are no more Mercedes on Fifth Avenue gave me a moment of clarity.

I think I finally understand Trump's economic philosophy now. And we are absolutely screwed.

The one thing that you need to understand about Trump is that he is, at his core, a con man with no empathy.

Therefore, he assumes that all other people are also con men with no empathy, and every exchange of goods and services that exists in the world is, on some level, a con.

Trump assumes every transaction in the world — between people, businesses, nation-states, even between two different agencies of the same government — has a winner and a loser, a scammer and a sucker. He believes if you're not ripping someone off, you're getting ripped off.

From an economist's perspective, this is complete nonsense. Unless there are major information asymmetries or distortions of market power, and often even then, most transactions are generally to the mutual benefit of both parties.
Otherwise no deals would ever get made.

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І щоб двічі не вставати, стаття із 2024.
Carlos Lozada — Stop Pretending Trump Is Not Who We Are

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 Щоразу, коли ви поширюєте цей текст, у світі десь народжується маленький Мевлют Алтинташ.