@EvolLove All these awful things about China are true, but it’s also true that China’s rocketship development has been the greatest prosperity miracle in human history, bringing hundreds of millions of people from near subsistence poverty into the technologically advanced global middle class in 40 years. 1/

@EvolLove I think a synthesis between the good parts of what China does and Nordic social democracy could be practical, and would be the best system of governance ever devised. Use more Western-style transparent, open forms of subsidy to engender competitive industries in roughly the same way China does, require continued independence of firms — nonconsolidation — as a condition of subsidy. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/04/income-driven-repayment-of-fixed-capital/index.html /fin