The native citizens will come to HN and offer some rationalization. The non citizens will offer others. The reason is very simple. The dictator is paranoid about losing control and getting killed. Simple as that
> "Activity that is harmful to the economy?" I think they get much more glaring issues to care about if it comes to this.
> What about their wrong simply being "getting too rich, and successful," and causing somebody a burst of jealousy?
> Becoming richer than a partyman in some small village is very much a challenge to the party. What changed now is that the entire China has become that village.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028463
> I keep the claim that the explanation is even more simpler: whomever becomes a big man in a country like China eventually goes down, and that's the whole story.
> There can only be one "big man" in such system, and he tolerates no competition.
> This consistently held true through the whole 40 years of modern China: whomever attains too much of the social, political, economical, cultural, moral, or even genealogical prominence consistently gets taken down. This is why most mainland Chinese have that fear of publicity, and standing out almost bordering on panic disorder. And this is why people attaining any level of prominence there keep leaving the country for the West.