Of course it is a strawman.
Related to the discussion? Yes.
Related to the position held by
@no smoking? No.
Actually, the reason I posted that point is because the discussion was about Democracy vs Dictatorship - not "just" the effect of dictatorship on economy. The NoKo example was just an example on how the dictatorship could have gone as easily as their current success. There is no correlation to Democracy=bad for growth and Dictatorship = good for business. Reason is, Democracy =/= Bad economic growth, just as Dictatorship =/= Good economic growth
And Stop being a hypocrite to complain about democracy when living in USA/India
So, you have no answer as to why democratic countries such as Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and India, are not even remotely as developed as PRC. It is evident you have no answer, nor will you have anytime in the foreseeable future.
You dont understand how debt works. You "think" those countries are underdeveloped than China. Best combination ever.
BTW Why dont you try and explain why PRC is not as remotely developed as Singapore, So Ko, USA, Japan etc?
Reason is, Democracy =/= Bad economic growth, just as Dictatorship =/= Good economic growth. Economic growth is related to economic policies and not form of government. Sure the the of govt can sometimes help, but it is mroe related to type of economic policies than with the type of government
But socialist dumb bots have managed to make laws that "take from Peter and give to Paul" in America. If people are not enlightened enough, which plebs can never be expected to be, it results in policies and laws that are disastrous in the long term. Any nation (not city state), will almost always have a large supply of plebs.
Still their decision to make, not that of the bureaucrats or you. The key thing being "who" is making the decision.
It is not funny. It makes complete sense. Rather have fewer children with quality upbringing than breed like maggots. Lenin was right - what will you do with the right to breed like vermin if you cannot feed them? I say three cheers to the Communist Party of China. (No, I am not confusing USSR with PRC. Just letting you know before you go off with yet another obtuse narrative.)
Thats people's decision to make and not yours.
"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses." — Vladimir Lenin.
Again, its people's decision to make, not yours
And, I repeat:
"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses." — Vladimir Lenin.
Again, its people's decision to make, not yours on which is better - hunger or freedom. People of India could have chose Shit anytime they wanted in the election over freedom, .ie they could have voted in Communist party into power. But they dint., because they know it was shit