Javier Milei's Davos Speech

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Beff Jezos-e/acc @Based BeffJezos Can't believe Milei flew in on an economy flight to Davos and BTFO'd the whole Private Jet Decel class in one speech 10:21 AM Jan 18, 2024. 1M Views : WORLD ECONOM FORUM Annual Meeting 20

SMAⓇ @generic_void Ok. So, the highly eccentric, Austrian economist, anarcho-capitalist president of Argentina is not only unfathomably based, but also may perhaps be the most sane, competent, and honest politician that currently exists in the world. America, please take notes. II GIF ALT Impressive. Very nice. peacock

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Overview

Javier Milei's Davos Speech refers to a speech on libertarianism and economic systems delivered by Argentinian President Javier Milei in January 2024 at the World Economic Forum. The speech received viral spread online and spawned numerous memes and discussions over the following days.

Background

On January 17th, 2023, recently elected Argentinian President Javier Milei, a libertarian, delivered a speech on economic systems and benefits of free market capitalism at the World Economic Forum in Davos. On that day, several uploads of the speech were made on YouTube,^[1] with the most-watched upload gaining over 520,000 views in two days (shown below).

Developments

On January 18th, 2024, X^[2] / Twitter user @aphysicist uploaded an AI-generated translation of the speech, with the video accumulating over 32 million views, 23,000 reposts and 66,000 likes in one day (shown below).

Milei's 2024 Davos talk, directly translated to English by AI (by heygen), in his own accent. Better than the dubbed version imo. pic.twitter.com/8OAGELuqxl

— Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) January 18, 2024

Online Reactions

The speech inspired viral reactions and memes on social media, primarily on Reddit and X / Twitter. For example, on January 17th, 2024, X^[3] user @agustindrombola posted a meme mocking Milei's speech that received over 4,000 reposts and 20,000 likes in two days (shown below, left). On January 18th, X^[4] user @BasedBeffJezos made a post that received over 410 reposts and 6,800 likes in one day (shown below, right).

Agustín Rombolá @agustindrombola - Pero, señor Milei, la cuestión del socialismo ya fue tratada en 1988. Estamos tratando el decoupling, la posibilidad de desconectar el crecimiento económico del impacto ambiental y el uso seguro de las IA. -¿Es eso, o es que no pueden admitir que son todos comunistas? But, Mr. Milei, the issue of socialism was already discussed in 1988. We are dealing with decoupling, the possibility of disconnecting economic growth from environmental impact and the safe use of Al. - Is that it, or is it that they can't admit that they are all communists? 10:51 AM Jan 17, 2024 452.4K Views

On January 18th, 2024, entrepreneur Elon Musk posted a meme about the speech that received over 109,000 reposts and 818,000 likes on X^[5] in one day (shown below).