Yeah for sure. Personally, I’m hoping Yellowstone pops. Give me carcinogenic sludge over radioactive fallout any day.

With respect. I didn’t say I would be safe. It is ridiculous to think that technology and infrastructure would just vanish. It’s more realistic to think some military force would take control of it and that there could be conflict for those fixed resources. Empty store shelves? Sure.

A lack of basic modern amenities? Maybe short term.

I would be more concerned about being able to prove valuable enough to access resources in this future fiction.

That said. We aren’t going to the dark ages. We’re going into global instability. It’s not Mad Max bro, it’s Children of Man.

It still sucks but it’s kinda dull to. People always approach these things with some strange romanticism.

People remember what he did to Ukraine.

No reason to make up movies. Rise of Skywalker? Yeah right

You know, everyone acts like an economic collapse would create an apocalypse world and just be over. Technology doesn’t just go away. Infrastructure doesn’t just go away. We’re looking at a potential world conflict that sees the death and birth of multiple global powers. Think Rome but with nukes and shit. Yeah it’s bad in the post nuclear world. We can’t predict how bad it will actually be especially with climate shit creeping up but the idea that new governments won’t pop up is silly. Really it’s kind of hopeful in a way.

Welcome to the shifting of hegemony

You know which country? Argentina. Who are we aiding with currency transfers and trade deals for meat? AREGENTINA

I think they love musk and ceos like him. They’re like the dancing monkeys of the business. The CEO becomes the lightning rod for public outcry against the company and causes short term dips in stock value which allows the share holders to buy more stock. Government contracts go through and they make money as the stock bounces back. There’s other factors sure, but at the end of the day the share holders are still making money. They’re running on a different system than the rest of us.

Thier first mistake was using ridiculous levels of CGI on a film series that had been mostly practical effects until that point.

The 5th Indiana Jones is pretty okay in the first half and imo only starts to break when it references Indi’s son to explain why he’s not in the movie. From that point on it’s a mixed bag.

Still, best practices is to act like there are only 3.

Yeah pretty much. See this is where it starts getting into money theory and I’m a few years out of my economics and finance classes.

But much like stocks and bonds currency swap also deals with interest and growth rates. It’s a high-scale ‘loan.’ (But not technically a loan.) Loan-like.

It doesn’t need paid back exactly but if one parties money becomes garbage then it does start to feel like a loan.

We are getting pesos in exchange, but again. The peso is risky. If it grows then you can argue we didn’t loose any money. But we have to hold the pesos to help stabilize it’s value.

So, I haven’t been getting any answer here myself but in general here’s what has been happening.

Aregentina’s…idk president? Has been cutting their social program funding and regulation for the last year or two. It’s wildly unpopular in his country.

Those cuts in regulation inflated their currency value for a bit but it was temporary.

Now, Aregentina is coming up on an election and the president is at risk of loosing and having his policies reversed.

So this money…it’s not actually going anywhere or for anything specific. It’s a currency swap. We are kind of giving them a loan. Just giving them money.

Because. Again. The Argentinian President cut tons of stuff and artificially inflated his currency with deregulation.

So Trump sending him money is like a bandaid to get him through his election.

He can point to this influx to show that “his policies are working.” They’re not. Argentina has had unstable currency for ages.

He’s stealing from Peter to pay Paul.

But this is complicated money science and I can’t explain in technical terms but that is the jist of it.

I mean, it could work. Javier Milei, The Argentinian President, is trying to get external investors to pump money into he economy so, if nothing else Trump giving him this money signals that he has America’s support.

Argentinia also just had a big win with soybean contracts and China.

But in the short term he’s essentially doubling down using a loan from his American pal.