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You know America has ten times the GDP per capita of Argentina and six times the GDP per capita of Russia, yes? Like there are reasoned and informed criticisms you can make of the USA. 'Doesn't have money' is not one.
That's precisely the issue. America has GDP and tries to have more GDP. It doesn't have money. It is a country with a chronically negative current account balance, literally $40T in debt, it has less money than anyone. On top of that it consistently has horrible financial discipline and vulnerability to scams and corruption at home. It can't afford to invest into shitholes with dubious ROI, so it does not invest in them and instead robs allies blind, raises tariffs, extorts investment, tries to monetize everything (eg Golden Visa, Board of Peace). Why do you think there exists BRI, but all American attempts to Build Back Better World or whatever have withered on the vine? China has money. America is broke. The main way it can share prosperity around is to deficit-spend buying Argentinian goods. And unfortunately, it already has enough beef and soy.
The American market will swallow up beef at reasonable prices. Even a mild discount vs the very high US cost of production will enable functionally infinite sales. Soy and wine(the most visible Argentine product to the US market is, far and away, malbec), maybe not, but the limitation on Americans buying steak and brisket is budgetary, not consumption ability.
US has been a small beef market for Argentina. 70% goes to China. I'm sure it's not because Argentinian beef is too expensive for Americans right now.
We have quotas on Argentinian beef that pre-date Trump. Trump wants to quadruple the amount which I think is a good thing. In the past Argentina has had restrictions on beef exports and taxes because the domestic population gets angry if beef prices are high.
The most interesting thing about Argentina to me is it has some American similarities but rich people live in cities. It makes me curious how much anti-urban living in the US is just a result of the high crime rates following the Great migration.
Argentina isn’t really a low crime society compared to the vast majority of America, where rich people actually live(not a lot of the Uber wealthy in St. Louis, detroit, Baltimore).
It’s high crime for a country that is almost all white.
It’s low crime for LATAM
It’s overall about the US average.
I think it’s obvious black peoples are a big reason why America doesn’t have many dense cities (NYC, Boston, some Miami). Some of that is crime and some of that is schooling. I feel safer in Buenos Aires than I do Chicago and NYC. Though NYC murder rate is reasonable.
The U.S. is entirely capable of having nice(albeit low affordability) low crime urban core neighborhoods in major cities. There’s several. The U.S. economy just doesn’t mandate rich people live in urban cores.
But they are always low affordability. Every city has some kind of barrier to prevent diverse urban communities. Zoning or price.
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