Maybe I'm being too optimistic here, but I suspect Chinese culture would do better with America's system of government than America did. Democracy relied on conscientious voting with willing deference to expert advice, which is why Facebook killed it.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1049721802073624576?s=19 …
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If I'm being too optimistic, it's because Facebook will be more advanced in 20 years, and/or Chinese culture might not be better at resisting it.
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But by default we just expect similar outcomes to Taiwan or Japan or Singapore, right? I guess a very bad choice of central bank governors trying to look stern and paternalistic is another failure mode.
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And by Taiwan and Singapore you don’t mean the decades of totalitarian single party rule that started those “democracies” I presume.
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That's exactly what China's history would look like if it switched to democracy tomorrow.
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