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Re:Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy by ArkyBeagle on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:49AM (#11547633)
Okay, so maybe democracy is the anomaly. It maybe just happened that the American Constitution showed up around 1790, right before the Industrial Revolution. Causal? Coincidence? We dunno so much. But we can always hope that increased material prosperity leads to less oppression.

China/Singapore/Taiwan are not just unspeakably evil places - that's the system they got by walking their path

Perhaps this hope is in vain. But I still hold to it.

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Re:Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy by rdtsc on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:08AM (#11549291)
> are not just unspeakably evil places - that's the system they got by walking their path

Yap. And I think on the other side is the realization that people are not willing to trade progress, jobs, health insurance, peace, stability for democracy.

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