Great we've identified the problem, our government is horribly inefficient.
Time to fix how we organize our societies.
edit: I am __not__ advocating for authoritarianism
Time to fix how we organize our societies.
edit: I am __not__ advocating for authoritarianism
Imagine living in a country where media filters all about the US down to Japanese internment camps just barely over half a century ago, NSA spying, GitMo waterboarding, homeless-packed cities, and kids getting shot in schools routinely. It's probably what happens in North Korea.
China provides evidence (if we really needed it) that it is possible to organize more effectively.
I am not insinuating any causal relationship between the authoritarianism and the more efficient organization.
I think that as a species we can absolutely do better than all of that, engineer an organizational system that is both efficient and above all _actually_ humane and democratic.
China may have come close to that over the last decade. The question is whether it can maintain that, or whether the power of the authoritarian regime will eventually lead to corruption and decisions that are counter to the overall interest of the people.
Perhaps a more direct leadership but with faster election and potential recall cycle would improve the situation.
China is able to do this because they trample rights.