About 10% of Argentina’s electricity comes from nuclear power plants. But libertarian President Javier Milei wants to privatize the state-owned nuclear energy company.
So Milei appointed a 23-year-old internet libertarian activist, Ezequiel Acuña, to run the state nuclear company.
Acuña has ZERO experience in nuclear energy. He graduated high school in 2020 and started studying political science in college, but dropped out of the program. He never formally studied science, or even management.
Acuña is also being paid a starting salary that is 10 times larger than the average salary in the private sector, which he and Milei worship, as libertarians.
Acuña has never worked in nuclear energy or anything related. His only “qualification” is that he tweets libertarian propaganda in support of Milei. And the Milei regime thinks that is enough.
This is actually existing libertarianism.
https://xcancel.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2047485764423106793
Yeah, I think what you’re touching on is basically the difference between expertise and loyalty. A prole revolution does need people who are loyal to the cause in the highest positions of power, but if you base power only on loyalty, you will have a bunch of people who are very loyal about not knowing what to do. You need a healthy intersection of loyalty and expertise, and the further out someone gets from the levers of power, the less strict you can be about loyalty, as long as they’re providing expertise. But no matter how close someone is to power, if you only prioritize loyalty, you get nothing more than sycophants.
Pure loyalty focus is the stuff of cults; their main thing is fealty to the leader. “Will you do this thing I order you to do, no matter how ridiculous or horrible it is?” That’s pure loyalty focus.