There can be a very stupid game couched in the jargon of complexity. Complexity is no proof that there is something intelligent underneath it. I have a dismal opinion of the way we do economics. It is similar to large legacy software projects. So much of creep it becomes crap.
I don't think that is true. For instance, China and Cuba have a process of societal ruling class selection, but they are not oligarchies. And I think that while the US and Germany are de facto ruled by oligarchs, they are republics with representative democracy.
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There is nothing democratic about US or Germany - they are oligarchic liberal states. China is oligarchic but not liberal, Cuba is a more difficult case, but obviously none of them democratic (at least in the original sense)
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I don't think that the West is entirely undemocratic, it is just not like the fairytale version we put into schoolbooks. There are rules that create a high degree of accountability even for the powerful, and in principle everyone can rise up there, unlike in a tyrannical system.
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