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by psychoslave 387 days ago
> Less democratic countries will have an advantage over the democratic countries in terms of fast execution, unless the latter manage to integrate private-public operations effectively.

This argument is like a classic. But on which time frame is it supposed to be operative? Is that back with any empirical data to test the claim?

Less involvement of edge nodes in the decision process is also encouraging "don't give a shit to suggest improvements" and "utter whatever lie is expected by the system to avoid claims of dissidence".

There are actual pragmatic benefits in democratic systems, it's not only pure idealistic motivation at stake that can argue in their favor.