When you think about it, the competence of totalitarian nations is much higher than ours. They get things done.
>>18407544When you have clear and decisive goals to achieve that are clearly in the national interest yes. It's why China could industrialize so fast, the west had already gone through experimentation through their market systems, and found what worked and what didn't. Also, it's pretty easy to see how building infrastructure in regions that sorely need it is a good thing, with no real free market or democratic element needed, in fact, it could slow it down.However, and this is a big caveat, catch up growth only gets you so far, as now evidenced by the plateauing of Chinese growth, and their struggles with the housing and tech sectors. They have run out of runway as the USSR did in finding clear easy wins because they are now at par with the world's largest economies, the easy catch-up opportunities have been exploited by their regime already. So, what do they do? Predictably, wait and see what works in the US (AI, technology) and try and wrangle their tech sector into compliance to imitate their success. They are still at a permanent disadvantage in a head-to-head economic competition with a mature free market peer.
>>18407544Sample size: only the totalitarian states I like, completely ignoring military juntas in Africa and other shitholes>>18407684>It's why China could industrialize so fast, the west had already gone through experimentation through their market systems, and found what worked and what didn'tYou forgot the mention all the hundred of billions of dollars of foreign investment they got from non-totalitarian western states who provided them with money, tech and a gigantic market hungry for the output of hundreds of millions of Chinese workers. I'm not going to say that China has not had competent leadership but they absolutely did not pull this off on their own.
>>18407544Totalitarian nations are corrupt, incompetent, inefficient shitholes actually. Otherwise I'd like them
>>18407684China had to liberalize in order to compete on the global market otherwise you'd have another Albania situation.
and do you have anything to actually back this up
electoral politics are bad for long term projects Either the opposition party scraps it when they're in charge or they take credit for the benefits and blame your party for the costs.
