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china has one thing going for them, they are willing to break a few eggs to make omelettes, one of the advantages of having an authoritarian government is that
by strikelaserclaw 6y ago
china has one thing going for them, they are willing to break a few eggs to make omelettes, one of the advantages of having an authoritarian government is that public feedback doesn't mean a whole lot.
- dumb1224 6y agoWell there is more nuance than that. Firstly the feedback may not seem similar in appearance to western democracies (demonstration / public statement etc), but there are lots of protests (many violent) hence the vast monitoring system. How decisions are changed according to these feedbacks (negative or positive) never made western press. A typical, and more agreeable 'feedback' mechanism is the often trial and test rollout in a designated city/area. Secondly any event in Beijing will bear significance that's not found in the lower prefecture level cities and everyone understands the stake and unsaid subtext. So in my opinion the government is actually more prudent than you think despite the lack of public feedback.