> Centralised planning will beat democratised decision making if they indeed manage to respond in time to a changing environment Only if you have competent lea

> Centralised planning will beat democratised decision making if they indeed manage to respond in time to a changing environment Only if you have competent leadership (which they seem to have right now). When you have a bad leadership and a dictatorship, there's no safeguard to prevent a total disaster to happen. The main advantage of a democracy isn't the power to the people but the separation of power, that's sometimes the last safeguard available to prevent a country to collapse.