> You can, in fact, lift a country out of poverty without also inflicting an authoritarian state on the populace. > Half the world managed it — you’re just mak

> You can, in fact, lift a country out of poverty without also inflicting an authoritarian state on the populace. > Half the world managed it — you’re just making excuses for authoritarianism. You mean the half of the world that enriched itself by inflicting "authoritarianism" on other populations - or indeed, their own populations too - unless you don't consider the treatment of Black and Native people in the US to be authoritarianism, or the Irish in the UK, etc etc?