How would you change China?

[feistymongol]

Originally posted by Greadius
That is why I used per-capita purchasing power. That means population was calculated in.

The point of democracy is that the government does need to control. A decentralized structure based on local democracy wouldn't need the state looking over the people's shoulder to make sure they're behaving.

Regulating commerce? As comapred to the complexities involved in dictating commerce?
Do you honestly think a movement towards a democracy would result in MORE regulation, as compared to less?

You totally misunderstood what I meant on both points..what I meant was that assuming a democracy will work the same with 120 million people as with 1.3 billion is flawed thinking. There are much more complex problems to be addressed in a society that large that can't all be resolved with just a shift to democracy.


Even the U.S. commerce has regulations and restrictions..does the fed mean anything to you? There's tons of legislation out there regulating our commerce, it's still not a true free for all economy. My point was regulating things like this would take on greater issues of complexity with a nation of 1.3 billion.

 

[Greadius]

Originally posted by feistymongol
You totally misunderstood what I meant on both points..what I meant was that assuming a democracy will work the same with 120 million people as with 1.3 billion is flawed thinking. There are much more complex problems to be addressed in a society that large that can't all be resolved with just a shift to democracy.

No two democracies function the same. But they DO work.
The fact that, right now, your authoritarian government is being pretty good to you, so the status quo is fine, its short-term thinking at its worst.
Do you honestly believe you can live your life, and follow your ambitions, political or otherwise, without ever comming into conflict with the goals of the CCP?

And, as I have said before (elsewhere), democracy has a limit to its effectiveness correllating with population size. That doesn't mean China needs a dictatorship. That means China needs a decentralized democracy. Where people in the Guizhou province can't vote themselves your neighbors Mercedes in Shanghai (or wherever they have 'em). The decentralizing of power has worked in most large democracies (just don't follow Russia's model, be consistent in the application of regional powers).

Originally posted by feistymongol
My point was regulating things like this would take on greater issues of complexity with a nation of 1.3 billion.

I think the complexity of regulating capitalism in a free society is miniscule compared to the complexity of regulating thought, political action, private beliefs, and economic activity in an authoritarian country.