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While it is probably a waste of resources, dictatorships are famous for having wasteful duplicated efforts: dictators need their people to constantly be competi
by mandevil 2y ago
While it is probably a waste of resources, dictatorships are famous for having wasteful duplicated efforts: dictators need their people to constantly be competing with each other, and to split favor so that no one ever becomes strong enough to pose a threat to the Big Man himself. That is the whole reason for the GRU-KGB split in the first place!
- surfingdino 2y agoSuvorov wrote about the Soviet practice of making GRU and KGB compete for the same goals to ensure they get the best intelligence.
- kmeisthax 2y agoHow very capitalist of them.
- vkou 2y agoThe Soviet Union had multiple competing suppliers for most things you could think of, down to consumer goods.
- red-iron-pine 2y agocapitalism is about the accumulation of capital; competition is not related, but the byproducts of capitalism which can be beneficial to the consumer. Capital (big C) does everything it can to extinguish competition -- and would, if not for regulation, trust busting, etc. All large companies are trying to be monopolies to the fullest extent possible, and history shows plenty of examples.