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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Democratic capitalism is usually NOT the best for those in power in non-democratic countries.
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It can be. Democratic capitalism generates a hell of alot of money and wealth.
I'd rather bribe a dictator than blow up the city he is hiding in. Its cost, in terms of lives, wealth and currency, is so much cheaper it isn't funny.
As an example, look at GB's royal family. They are richer now than they where at the height of their pre-constitutional monarchy power.
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Originally Posted by stevo
You speak as if the US left the UN in 1990. What the hell was going on there for 14 years? War planning?
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I don't understand what your statement means. I suspect it may be referring to the first gulf war?
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Again, if there isn't a democracy in place the general population is totally at the mercy of the ruling power. If they are benevolent, the people will thrive. But as far as I know, there has never been a benevolent rulership sustained for any meaningful sort of time.
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Even a benevolent dictator isn't smart enough to run a society nearly efficiently enough to develop the amount of wealth a democratic capitalist society can.
Unless, of course, the benevolent dictator chooses to run the society as a democratic capitalist one, or some reasonably close approximation thereof.
I don't know of a means of motivating people that works as broadly (on as many people) and as accurately (towards the 'common good') as the profit motive. Both Democracy and Capitalism give people with the lust for power something not completely destructive -- and usually productive -- to do.