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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Of course not, but democracy is not to blame for conditions in SF, because there's no democracy in the US. If there were, the immigration act of 1965 would never have existed.
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There's no democracy in the US the same way there was no communism in the USSR
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But I can point to Switzerland as a true democracy.
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Seems to work ok for the Swiss. They're Swiss; most things that aren't as insane as communism would work well for them Ultimately though democracy is broken and would break in Switzerland too if not held together by non-democratic means - if one party starts importing voters...
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What stops that is some rules but ultimately what stops that is a commitment that some things are more important than the "democracy" of counting noses.
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In Switzerland leftist politicians can't import replacement voters because Swiss citizens must vote in every single individual case to make a foreigner a new citizen.
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There's a security hole somewhere in the system and leftists 'll eventually find it The question is if people there understand that actions to preserve the system that are not permitted by the system are necessary but democratic systems are structurally less able to act that way
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