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If by benefit you mean existential risk, then yes. A big benefit. Although in the end, these kinds of markets might drift into oblivion as well, by virtue of be
by Lutger 2y ago
If by benefit you mean existential risk, then yes. A big benefit. Although in the end, these kinds of markets might drift into oblivion as well, by virtue of being conquered by stronger states. So in that sense, it will all sort itself out. You may get slain by by communists, but at least you're not a communist yourself. So there's that.
- schmidtleonard 2y agoSelling the industrial plant of the United States to Communist China is truly one of the moves of all time.
- paganel 2y agoIt was supposed to turn the Chinese into capitalists, and hence into potential allies. They're not communists any more, that's for sure, of course, they're not Western "liberal-democrats", either, which is why the West is in this whole conundrum.