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| Mar 3, 2019 at 1:22 | comment | added | jamesqf | WRT to Chile and lack of (economic) equality, we might compare that to Venezuela, where everyone (except the rulers, of course) seems to be pretty well equally on the verge of starvation. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 10:17 | comment | added | ChrisW | Doesn't that sound like Singapore. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 3:36 | comment | added | Ed Grimm | @Acccumulation Built on corruption by a limited set of players is generally more efficient than systemic corruption. Given the side this particular family controlled, I expect the peasants will be able to trust the police in much the same way citizens could trust the police of Ankh Morpork before Vetinari became Patrician. But many other institutions will likely be forced to be much better. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 3:26 | comment | added | forest | This is often termed a benevolent dictatorship. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 0:29 | comment | added | Acccumulation | "Why can a dictatorship be great? Because you can ignore special interests and other inefficiencies." The book The Dictator's Handbook argues the opposite: dictators have to have the support of flunkeys (special interests), and that support is gained by supporting inefficiencies that benefit those flunkeys. Since the dictator has to buy the support of the power players, the system is built on corruption. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 22:22 | comment | added | user39548 | These are good points, but your answer would be better, IMO, if you discussed the likely results of these actions. For example, you can make decisions quickly, but you have to make more, so you can get a backlog. You can remove corruption, but if anyone is afraid of being executed for acting wrong, there'll either be a shortage, play the game more carefully, build their own loyal base of supporters, or do the bare minimum possible to avoid making the wrong move. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 20:34 | vote | accept | L Maen | ||
| Mar 1, 2019 at 20:16 | history | answered | Jeutnarg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |