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Re:Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations ... by ajmurmann on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:16PM (#44445528)
This is the exact issue. There is a lot more variance in autocrats. You can get Lee Kuan Yew and you can get Kaiser Wilhelm. With democracy you are much more likely to get something in the middle. In the end of the day the cost of an bad autocrat is higher than the opportunity cost of a milk toast government compared to Lee Kuan Yew. China is still catching up from the Mao years.

I do work that social media will change this though

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Re:Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations ... by triceratops on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @01:06PM (#44446161)
milquetoast, not milk toast
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Re:Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations ... by bena on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @02:50PM (#44447422)
Both actually. Milquetoast was a fictional character used to characterize extreme timidity, as if he were the personification of milk toast. Eventually, the name became a synonym for the attitude. But the name comes from the food
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Re:Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations ... by triceratops on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @03:12PM (#44447658)
TIL
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