/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19596014
>modern china is more capitalist and has freer markets than the US
Man I wanted to contest this but sadly I think you might be right. The chinese are enslaved, they can have their business taken from them just for being successful and they aren't allowed to travel without government permission etc. but at the same time just not regulating business has been fucking huge for china, yeah nobody wants shitty chinese products but every good producer wants the chinese to make their good products and as a result they are all making money. Maybe outright stealing and enslaving your populace is better than implicitly doing it because the implicit slavery of the west can be so much more refined and efficient in its stealing, and maybe that just comes down to the disadvantages of democracy. An autocrat would be like a single big leech coming by and draining you of some blood and moving on careful not to kill you, a democracy would be like the exact calculated amount of leeches that can be permanently attached to you before you collapse. This is a great book on the evils of democracy and how monarchy was in fact freer in practice.

>>19269201
Well, I have done what I can to convince you, here is 300 pages on the subject.