conventional wisdom is that post-corona we will everywhere see expansion of state capacity, but what if repeated failures only undermine state legitimacy even more and lead to a neofeudal corporatism, full of fragmented and overlapping sovereignties
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after the Chinese and the US responses, that's going to be an inevitable consequence regardless of who ends up ruling
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the positive spin is autarky creates redundancies in supply chains and makes governments feel less vulnerable. People argued during the Cold War that trade decoupling between the superpowers actually made things more stable.
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but 1930s are probably a more relevant and less happy comparison
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