Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes

Re:Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered... by mjevans on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:36AM (#32080259)

Arguably countries are on a logical trajectory to consolidate into economic superblocks, if not in literal than in defacto status.

Gundam 00 comes to mind as an example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_00 , one of the main characters is a former child warrior from the then severely economically depressed post-oil 'middle east' region, while each of the three economic superblocks has it's own space elevator connecting to an orbital ring of solar collectors.

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Re:Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered... by oblio on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @07:26AM (#32081198)

I mean, Gundam 00 is cool and all, but it's from 2007 or so.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (from 1949) literally has Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia :-)

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Re:Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered... by mjevans on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:45PM (#32091016)

I read that book (when forced to while in school), and I mostly only remember Big Brother and that dystopias suck. Also I would take everything stated about everyplace, inside the fictional regime or not, with a huge grain of salt. I probably did at the time, which is why the specific world state just never stuck with me.

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