|
|
|
|
|
|
by s1artibartfast
1692 days ago
|
|
|
>Is it as bad as China? No. Is it better than average? Also no. What are you looking at for your average? I would say that the global average is pretty low when you consider each country, and Japan and SK is in the upper half. You have to take into account dysfunctional and repressive kleptocracies in the Middle East, Africa, and South America |
|
|
There are not many countries in the world that are so dysfunctional as far as democracy that the same party can stay in power for 50 years, nor that literally no single president has managed not to resign. If SK and Japan were in Africa, the Middle East, or South America and had economic outcomes commensurate with the region but on the higher end, we would call them dysfunctional and repressive kelptocracies.
Like come on, if you saw a country in Africa where the same party was in power for a lifetime and the conviction rates exceed 99%, where judges would rather resign than declare someone not guilty, and where a an extremist political faction infiltrated the educational bureaucracy and textbook publishers to prevent historical event from being taught, you would call it a dysfunctional and repressive kleptocracy. The only reason that's not extended to Japan and SK is by comparison with China and because they are our allies.