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The actual quote: > There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on
by Mavvie 3y ago
The actual quote:
> There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.
I don't think that's wrong? Although it is certainly in bad taste for a prime minister.
- nonethewiser 3y agoOf course that’s bad. You cant justify dictatorships with good intentions.
- Micrococonut 3y agoWhat about with good outcomes?
- FreshStart 3y agoWhat about a poster of good outcomes in front of a dystopia?
- stronglikedan 3y agoIf some of those ever manifest themselves, I may reconsider.
- mistrial9 3y ago"The King is happy on his Throne, and the people are pleased" obviously winning in battle is a good outcome, since your enemies are now dead or slaved. "Rome demands victory from her Generals" .. and those who tried and failed, were publicly killed. As they still do in China actually. we can do better than this
- ffhhttt 3y agoI’m not sure Romans really did that.
- rapind 3y agoI missed the part where he said the Chinese did good at X therefore dictatorship’s must be amazeballs! Leave room for nuance and discussion.
- vosper 3y ago> There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime. It's wrong, too - the Chinese economy is in trouble, and has been since Covid. Xi has accumulated more autocratic power, but if he's able to use it to "turn their economy around on a dime" then he's not doing so.
- Mavvie 3y agoI don't disagree, but the quote is from 10 years ago. Long before COVID.
- lambdasquirrel 3y agoOn the contrary, I’m not sure that those big government interventions have often worked out. There may have been a grain of truth to what the libertarians have been saying all along. What have we gotten for our interventions? Wildly bloated asset prices? A younger generation that can’t afford a home?
- cloverich 3y agonit: You don't have to be a libertarian to be opposed to government interfering with market dynamics, when its not for explicit safety (i.e. FDA, EPA, etc).