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bulbar | parent | next
Nothing and nobody rises above the authority in a dictatorship, that's kind of the point.

The CEO of Alibaba was kidnapped after he publicly criticized the government.

It's generally no surprise that there are not that many critical voices in a dictatorship.

JumpCrisscross | root | parent | next
> Nothing and nobody rises above the authority in a dictatorship, that's kind of the point

Until they do. That’s the problem with dictatorship. If you can kill and swiftly replace the dictator, you become the dictator. What the masses believe is irrelevant.

Rnonymous | root | parent
How many american citizens were kidnapped without due process in the last year?
tonyhart7 | root | parent
Google says 500 ????? Idk seems a small for me
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LogicFailsMe | parent | next
Despite really kicking our asses on their approach to an AI ecosystem, China has problems of its own. Too bad we can't just copy the parts that work but those are the rules I guess.

https://www.wsj.com/world/china-economy-gen-z-f9058941

eklavya | parent
There are a lot of things you don't have to worry about in China because someone else makes the decision for you. Sure you want to strive for that?

I feel sorry that democracies are failing their citizenry like this.

idiotsecant | root | parent | next
Someone else making the decision for you is a good description for laws, which we decided a long time ago we would in fact have. It's weird how people come out of the woodwork like this when those laws start to point at rich people.
goodmythical | root | parent | next
There's surely a difference between a system in which the population gets to pick who writes the laws and one in which they don't?

The way a farmer decides what their pigs eat is far from the way a caring lover chooses their partner's dinner.

LogicFailsMe | root | parent | next
Stupid obsolete laws that stay on the books forever is seemingly the American way and occasionally we refresh them with new even stupider laws that were obsolete before they were even proposed.
throaway3534621 | root | parent
Sure, why not? I'd like to live in a system where the interest of the nation and the people are above your or someone else's ROI. I'd like to live in a system where if you try, like Elon Musk, to amass so much influence on the nation for your own benefits - you're gonna be Jack Ma'd.
universa1 | root | parent | next
Who decides what the interests of the nation are? Who decides what the interests of the people are? You? I?

This is generally not possible to do consistently, as if A prefers option 1 and B prefers option 2, you're at an impass...

And I'd take the inefficiencies of democracies over dictatorships any day...

bulbar | root | parent | next
> I'd like to live in a system where the interest of the nation and the people are above your or someone else's ROI.

Democracies are much closer to that than dictatorships as they don't need to care about the people and never did.

Crazy that you like a system where somebody can just get kidnapped. It never just affects the "right" people, but also a lot of other people. China is jailing and kidnapping a lot - easily tens of thousands of more - of their citizen to sustain control.

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bryan_w | root | parent
And what stops Elon from becoming the person in charge?