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> I think history shows that dictatorships and economic systems that deny market forces are ultimately short lived like 99% of history is monarchies and dictat
by ren_engineer 4y ago
> I think history shows that dictatorships and economic systems that deny market forces are ultimately short lived
like 99% of history is monarchies and dictatorships, democracy is a blip on the radar
- jhbadger 4y agoI'm not sure it makes sense counting societies prior to the industrial revolution because most issues in society before then depended just on the control of arable land. The industrial revolution changed the entire dynamic. Dictatorships, whether communistic or fascistic haven't lasted long in this era, and nearly all surviving monarchies turned into meaningless shows of pageantry (and those that survived as actual rulers like some in the Middle East, did so because they were oil states and are unlikely to last long as the world moves away from reliance on fossil fuels).