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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by Nasrudith on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:44PM (#42923632)
There is a reason why third world countries choose IMF funding even with the strings attached even though default is always an option. It turns out having credit is very valuable to stability and progress and therefore defaulting is a very bad thing.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by carlosjobim on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:56PM (#42924540)
The reason being that the ruling class benefits from selling out their subjects to financial vultures?

Being rich in a first world countries is very neat, even great. Being rich in a third world country is like thirteen levels above that. For you and for your family.

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