Kim Jong-Il was king of north Korea. Has that worked out for the subjects? Conversely, consider the only true democracy: Switzerland. We don't have democratic governments elsewhere in the West. Liberal "representative democracies" are neither representative nor democracies.
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Replying to @CBlossius @junger_g
North Korea has transitioned from communist state to an effective monarchy and there are some serious hurdles when trying to do so. At the very minimum they've created a state where people have enough hope for the future to have children. TFR N Korea - 2.1 TFR S Korea - 1.09
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What?? N Korea has a higher TFR, thus N Koreans are more optimistic than S Koreans? They fish plastic bottles out of river on the Chinese border and treat them like delicacies. Could it just be there’s more backward peasants in N Korea, and backward peasants have more kids?
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Maybe fishing plastic bottles out of a river isn't as bad for the soul as the n-th degree of feminism and atomized consumerism that is present in South Korea. Maybe in 50 years N Korea can figure out how to get rich and remain Korean like China did but even if not, they'll exist
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They had a horrific famine as late as the 2000s. Taking awhile for the Hoppean Kingship incentive to kick in. It’s illegal to leave and you’re shot if you attempt to. I’m taking atomistic consumerism over that.
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Look, the alternative is to be occupied by USG. Famine is better than letting USG empower your society's deviants to castrate and molest your sons and turn your daughters into sterile sexbots. It's easier to rebuild from famine than from USG rotting your culture.
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What about Saudi Arabia, which is an absolute monarchy of the ancien régime type, never been communist? The Saud royals have billions in offshore bank accounts, the people do barely ok (thanks to oil surplus) but are forced to live in the pod under the heel of the morality police
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KSA seems above average for an Arab society but the real main motivation for a King there is "don't piss off American progressives or they'll try to kill you to install fanatic Muslims". Dubai, otoh, looks great on almost any measure because they're small enough to be overlooked
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Dubai is great only if you're rich. But the US and Brazil too are Ok if you're rich.
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Dubai is well governed If you're poor and you want to work for some time to make good money, you can do so What it doesn't allow is a poor person going there to impose costs on everyone so he can get the thrill of living near wealth while getting the thrill of destroying things
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Is SF "good for poor people"? It certainly lets them get the monkey thrill of making people with more money than them miserable by petty annoyances and occasionally violent intimidation and even actual violence.
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