I think of it in the following analogy. Democracy is continuous garbage collecti...

yourapostasy on June 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment

I think of it in the following analogy. Democracy is continuous garbage collection. It is messy and inefficient, sometimes unpredictable for the efficiency nuts. Authoritarianism is manually-managed pointer references. Efficient and very predictable at first. Once the complexity gradient rises above a certain level though...

jandrese on June 11, 2018 [–]

This is an analogy that only someone on Hackernews would even attempt.