> No prosperity = no democracy. I'm not sure how you're measuring "prosperity", but democracies tend to be richer per capita, and I don't see prosperity "disap

> No prosperity = no democracy. I'm not sure how you're measuring "prosperity", but democracies tend to be richer per capita, and I don't see prosperity "disappearing". Do you mean that countries are facing the risk of recession due to Covid, and this will make some voters temporarily vulnerable to populists? I suppose that's true, but on longer time scales, economic growth remains positive. What is decreasing, though, is equality, with the Gini coefficient of rich countries getting consistently worse over the past few decades: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/public%20and%20social%20sector/our%20insights/inequality%20a%20persisting%20challenge%20and%20its%20implications/svgz-mgi-inequality-ex2.svgz https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/public%...