Thread by @PlanMaestro, Thinking on doing a thread on the Chilean situation … but worried [...]

Thinking on doing a thread on the Chilean situation … but worried about losing the 3 Chilean followers I have

(and boring everyone else)

200 Years of Inequality in Chile

I think the source is @gapminder, but trying to confirm

Another version of that chart … it seems to be from @gapminder

Keeping those charts at hand for if/when I write that thread

I got them from @BellatrixEnergi

Now I’m wasting my time trying to find out what happened during the second Ibáñez government (1952-58) and why I wasn’t tought this in my history books.

My guess is that there are gaps in the data and partly this.

Confirmation, the data for those charts comes from @gapminder, here’s the methodology

https://www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gini/

More data for that posible thread

And this

Boom

( @felipegallegos7)

Chile with a Wealth Tax? Probably not for all the reasons why it does make sense for the USA.

But the door has been opened. https://twitter.com/gabriel_zucman/status/1187845377145409537?s=21

https://twitter.com/gabriel_zucman/status/1187845377145409537?s=21

An interesting @johnauthers point

Unrelated but related chart

Inside view … an alien invasion

Outside view: a movement without a clear program or representatives

Chile is still an emerging market, with internal divisions

Inequality and Growth

Classism

Poverty

Life in Poverty

The messy process of moving up

Social and Economic Reforms during Ricardo Lagos

( @wikipedia)

Another inequality chart that contradicts the 19th Century history of the previous chart

by ( @JRodriguezWeber)

Economic concentration, billionaires wealth as % of gdp

( @BrankoMilan @forbes)

Evaluation of conduct of Chilean authorities during protests

Global Context 2019

Cultural Map 2015 vs 2019

Ricardo Lagos https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-domingo/noticia/columna-ricardo-lagos-escenario-minimo-comun-conjugar-la-igualdad/879347/

Columna de Ricardo Lagos: El escenario mínimo común para conjugar la igualdad

Los llamados desde otros países han sido permanentes en estos días. Y la pregunta casi la misma, con tono de perplejidad: ¿Qué explica este estallido social impresionante? En sus miradas está el...

https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-domingo/noticia/columna-ricardo-lagos-escenario-minimo-comun-conjugar-la-igualdad/879347/

This!

What we pay for civilized society https://twitter.com/planmaestro/status/848537252959363072?s=21

https://twitter.com/planmaestro/status/848537252959363072?s=21

Presidential Approval

( @cadem_cl)

Chilean Exports

Extremes in Chile by municipalities

Chile: OECD Economic Survey

http://www.oecd.org/economy/surveys/Chile-2018-OECD-economic-survey-overview.pdf

Copper

Growth Model: export of commodities

(check two graphs below)

More on export model

Trust in government and media

Scandals … plus trialed and condemned cartels in toilet paper, diapers, chickens, pharmacies, supermarkets … among others

Plus insider trading scandals: Chispas, Soquimich, D&S, Bilbao, Latam including our current president, … among others

But still worth remembering a few things … and in Chile we still remember this one all too well https://twitter.com/planmaestro/status/795762580891570180?s=21

https://twitter.com/planmaestro/status/795762580891570180?s=21

And I hope we do not need to learn this one … https://twitter.com/PlanMaestro/status/834125869845209089?s=20

https://twitter.com/PlanMaestro/status/834125869845209089?s=20

Business Culture in Chile

Where “track record” doesn’t mean what you think it means https://twitter.com/planmaestro/status/626765941137735680?s=21

https://twitter.com/planmaestro/status/626765941137735680?s=21

Short thread about that track record https://twitter.com/planmaestro/status/626949573634715648?s=21

https://twitter.com/planmaestro/status/626949573634715648?s=21

Education in Chile … a view from Argentina

(pretty good but in Spanish)

Elite schools in Chile and classism … colegios cuicos

http://reader.digitalbooks.pro/book/preview/62120/I_subcap2.xhtml

Initial Piñera cabinet … from 23 ministers only two not from upper class schools

(Chile, the country where whatever you’ve done with your life,or your age, they’ll always ask you which school did you go to … even job interviews) https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2018/01/25/892494/Cuatro-del-Tabancura-y-tres-del-Saint-George-Los-colegios-de-donde-salieron-los-nuevos-ministros.html

Cuatro del Tabancura y tres del Saint George: Los colegios de donde egresaron los futuros ministros

Son en total 15 establecimientos, siendo sólo dos de ellos particulares subvencionados y ninguno municipal. Además, dos de los titulares estudiaron fuera de Santiago.

https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2018/01/25/892494/Cuatro-del-Tabancura-y-tres-del-Saint-George-Los-colegios-de-donde-salieron-los-nuevos-ministros.html

Chilean Tax Structure … when the VAT reaches its limit

More VAT

Personal Income Tax

Property Taxes

Chilean Pensions

Education Attainment in Chile

Secondary Education

Tertiary Eduaction … big quality problems plus student debt

A few more slides about the Chilean export-growth model … life after Copper flattened

Exports

Productivity : large firms and even exporters struggling with productivity growth … while they sway large influence economically and politically

closer developed world comparisons by size, geography, and industry: somewhere between Norway/New Zealand and Australia/Canada

Research and Development … we don’t need that

When cheap and “flexible” labor

While small firms have limited access to financing and is expensive. Check Canada, that I always thought similar in this aspect.

Chilecracia … site launched less than two weeks ago to prioritize the proposals of a movement w/o representatives. More than 120k participants.

Clustered red arrows clustered are the most represented priorities.

List of priorities according to site.

Probably suffers from internet access bias and may be manipulated in the future … but good first shot of what this movement is about.

1 Pensions higher than minimum wage
2 Higher minimum wage
3 Fix politicians salaries as % of minimum wage
4 Deprivatized water
5 Effective jail for price fixing
6 Free transportation for the
elderly
7 Free obstacles and fees for pre-existing conditions w/ health insurers

8 Limit or set profit of medicines
9 Reduce salaries of public functionaries
10 Universal health insurance
11 Effective jail for bribery and corruption
12 Raise progressiveness of tax system
13 Reduce VAT of medicines
14 Reduce taxes for vulnerable elderly

Economic proposals don’t sound like a commie hellhole … and the Chilean way has usually been slowly but surely.

Political proposals show concern that the political system has been captured.

Timeline of initial events in Chile ( @reddit)

Political situation of the Chilean president … beyond the catastrophic approval numbers

(or how to bring the plutocrats, that in general don’t like Piñera even before he was president, to the table)

( @elmostrador)

About buying roses, taking the early subway, missing Congress, running from journalists, and calling a war

I never understood why Piñera wanted so badly to be president, again! Why would a billionaire want this thankless job?

I don’t think the answer is responsibility or achievement. Just look at his program and its political viability.

But then … Bloomberg. Legacy, they say.

And how I’ll start this thread about Chile (if I ever focus and write it)