Nightmare on Central Pointe.

I'd like to see Argentina get freed from the IMF. 

To get a better grasp of what's at play, I thought "what exactly is the IMF?"

It's a Fund. Which to me seems more ominous than if it were a Federation.

"Fund" is like they're trying to be faceless.

I don't know the specifics of what was borrowed by who and what's been paid back etc.

But I do remember a time when this guy in a house of 4 of us had a chores rotation. (The whole house had it but it was the one guy who really believed in it.)

And if you didn't leave a clean sink, if there's still 5 dishes to go, your week of dishes hasn't ended yet. The rules were purposeful and complete.

The system was kind of naturally installed against me given that I wasn't home much and wasn't using dishes but would still have my turn in doing them.

Our assignment was to rinse them from the sink, stack, run, and unstack the dishwasher. I accepted this as a burden of living there, but proposed that we reduce it to running and unstacking. Might as well be responsible for your own dishes deeper into the process. That would seem like the better way to have been doing it all along even before I got there.

But these rules were quite good as they stood, it was thought. Stacking the dishwasher is a 1-man job ☝️ You keep your eye on how much space you have. Plan it all out. If everyone stacks their own dishes ad hoc, how can we be sure it would go so well?

Sunday turned to Monday and I didn't leave a clean sink. Too many dishes to fit.

Next time I'm at the sink it's piled high again, almost like someone was deliberately using more dishes than what would fit, and I'm still stuck.

We're out of dishwasher soap and I receive word that they'll bring home new soap from the store for me. Enforcer guy is only thinking about the plate count, he doesn't really know about the soap, so it's not an excuse. But they forgot about it and I was stranded.

We're into maybe Thursday at this point, and I have to walk away from a full sink.

Before I'm home again I receive messaging that enforcer is furious at me and is calling for my removal. It wasn't reasonable to anyone else so it would reduce him to something of a paper tiger, but he never spoke another word to me.

Argentina has good resources, good businesses, and has been one of the best economies in the world before. I don't really see why they'd be stuck in the mud ongoingly unless the terms were really bad.

So I get the sense that it's like me with the dishes, where they probably have paid and overpaid and at some point you could just kind of instinctively call it settled. Unless of course you just want them stuck in it because it behooves you.

It's unfortunate that a small group of representatives can agree to terms that put an obligation on a whole population of people.

If loans go well, it would perhaps benefit the population. So it's fine that they're not totally off the hook and that there needs to be some sort of opposite reaction. But I'd think of it as a spectrum, in terms of how on the hook they are. If you're the loaner, loaning to someone who represents a whole population, you know what you're getting into and there has to be mercy. You can't trap them into perpetuity. At some point it should be maximum damage and just a figment of wanting them to be stuck under these terms rather than a legitimate obligation.