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Also a stronger aversion to control orders. Can you even imagine telling someone they cannot buy as many X as they want? Or locking down a city? I find it fa
by DEADBEEFC0FFEE 7y ago
Also a stronger aversion to control orders. Can you even imagine telling someone they cannot buy as many X as they want? Or locking down a city?
I find it fascinating that authoritarian regimes have an advantage in that they can rapidly implement lockdown.
Freedom has a price.
- realusername 7y agoI would not say that authoritarian regimes necessary have advantages, Taiwan and Japan seems to handle this crisis much better than Iran for example. Culture does play a big role into that indeed though, if you can manage to close off events & cities and having your citizens obey all the health precautions, it has a big impact on how it spread.
- TACIXAT 7y agoMy local Costco is already telling people they can only buy 2 waters, paper towels, and disinfecting wipes. No one is rioting.
- dnautics 7y agoMaybe Costco is an authoritarian regime!
- dx034 7y agoIt's a business, they're free to do whatever they want. I'm not sure how well people would react if the government tells them they're not allowed to leave the city anymore. In Italy, apart from riots in prisons, the population accepts that pretty well, I'm not sure it'd be the same in the US.
- rorykoehler 7y ago* rampant thoughtless individualism has a price.