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A comment on Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny. Parent comment

Re:Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny by mrep on Monday October 03, 2016 @11:05PM (#12633057)
> "Democracy only works in a growing economy. Without a return to economic growth, the democratic experiment will fail.

Someone care to explain that because I don't see economic growth as a dependency to democracy.

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Re:Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny by _andromeda_ on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @04:57AM (#12634167)
In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Tf8RN3uiM Milton Friedman does a great job of explaining how capitalism is a necessary condition for democracy to thrive but not a sufficient one for the same.
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Re:Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny by abysmallyideal on Monday October 03, 2016 @11:47PM (#12633193)
As soon as you hit resource scarcity, there is no cushion to give people "rights" and the state begins to change the economic rules to maintain stability.

The US and the West experienced a huge gain in resource that is quickly being squandered in a contest of "either we use it or we lose it". Since there was more to go around there is less need to enact stricter forms of government.

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