no, he gets benefits for loyalty

so you pay him then

yes

you pay him, so you can trust he will do his job

so he will do it well

you pay him, and hold a gun to his head too

so he can take care of himself

you put a gun in the hand of someone and then pount a gun at his head, eventually it will bite you in the ass

no?

you give him a gun only for killing someone else

after that he hands it back

and

he'll be alone, you have the rest of the government backing you

aite so now you have an armory with a entire paperwork factory behind it

you see how the cost of enforment ramps up really fast?

because no one is motivated to do what you want them to do, you gotta manage everything you want them to do, which costs more resources then you will get out of the labour

assuming soviet gulags are anything to go by

its not any different than the cost of capitalism

People prefer life over money

problem is that under authoritarianism, people have no incentive to be above-accepted

that is why authoritarian societies stagnate in progress, and capitalists don't

that doesn't change that making things work, is still more efficient in authoritarianism

and im saying with the soviet data is was clear it wassnt

What was the context where he said that? I only remember him saying that an authoritarian government has an advantage in being able to act quickly in cases of emergency, so in the case of a hostile invasion a dictator would be able rally the troops without asking anyone, but under a pure direct democracy people would have to meet up, vote, etc, or under a true anarchy they'd lack coordination to do much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVI6KeZnHyU

he gave an example of making a guy mop a floor

Guns don't hold nearly enough liquids to do that effectively

what Schedrevka said is the whole argument

in the long run, Authoritarianism stagnates

But in the short run, its effective because you bypass any negotiations

workers are always trying to minimize their work, cause they didnt get anough food to survive otherwise. managers always said they did enough work each day, to not get demoted into becoming workers, managers manegers always said they reached the camps quotas even though the work was shoddy and there wasent enough product, or risk being trown with the workers

Also a benevolent dictator is rare, and even if you can find one you probably won't find another when he dies even if no one tries to usurp him or whatever

at the end when they wanted to sell their producs you got a bunch of shit that didnt work, and no one to blame except the entire camp

and then all the money you did get for your product, goes into paying the salaries of the people holding the gun, cause on that level even the soviets admitted that capitalism just worked better

they just payed someone to hold a gun to force others to work, where it would have been more efficient to pay someone to work

Anyone else seen Death of Stalin?

No, but that gave me an idea for a movie: Weekend at Bernie's, but Bernie is a dictator

Watch Death of Stalin. It's like Life of Brian.

In fact I'm now realizing that may have been an intentional thing with the title.

ok, but it could be called Weekend at Benito's.

You make me sad.

whatchu gays tolkien about

nothin much, hobbit you?

the dong of power

ooh benevolent dictators

i know one

umm

yeah

@Schedrevka There was a benevolent dictator, Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso

Under him, it became the most prosperous country in africa

the least smelly turd award eh?

Nah he was genuinely a great guy

https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/15/this-counts-as-a-microaggression-america

lol

Josip Broz Tito was considered a "benevolent dictator"

ill say

he wrote that song africa

by toto?

toto tito

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/04/27/whooping-should-banned-beause-excludes-deaf-people-nation-union/

same fidderence

living should be banned as it discriminates against the living impaired

dont call em the dead, thats transphobic

Heres a thought 🤔

Should people stop breathing to show solidarity with hospital patients on life support?

somehow

yes, I would propose stopping breathing for one second in solidarity

I'm transdead bury me

im a transistor, gimmi access to your computer chips

good idea Shiv, 🤔

We should become trans-dead to avoid taxes

cuz dead people pay no taxes

@Timcast a good followup idea maybe

That person becoming trans-gender to save car insurance costs

Should people become trans-living to save on taxes or morgages?

I love how people in the news are happy about Imran khan being elected as prime minister

pakistan is under military rule

who's Imran Khan?

the prime minister is as important as you are lol

@Dr.Wol Pakistani prime minister

Dis guy.

https://nation.com.pk/22-Nov-2016/pti-the-alt-right-in-pakistan?show=660%20architect

please say its the guy with the mustache and sunglasses

I love a good mooch. No its the twat in the cream top.

Mooch nahi toh kooch nahi

@Dr.Wol

dollar store middle eastern william dafoe

OMG itz south Azianz not middle easternz

U r such an ignorant westerner but from india

Soooo...

"50 Shades of Paki" coming up?

I remember there were some Homeland episodes set in Pakistan and Pakistani SJWs kept going "OMG itz like not even using the proper urdu and itz filmed in da wrong placez ignorant westernerz"

So race ist and ignorant ist

lmfao

They'd shoot him would they not? They'd assume it was some military intelligence command or something.

one would fire

And then its gonna be a shoot-out with the president's guard and the queensguard

resulting in England being nuked by 'Muricans

I too would shoot without hesitation to start a world war

EAT THAT DRUMPKINS

https://www.quora.com/If-the-Queen-of-England-had-ordered-her-Guards-to-shoot-Trump-for-no-reason-how-would-the-guards-respond/answer/Kevin-Oliver-14

it would not start a world war. no austrians involved

https://www.quora.com/If-the-Queen-of-England-had-ordered-her-Guards-to-shoot-Trump-for-no-reason-how-would-the-guards-respond/answer/Guy-Caulfield-Kerney

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/mob-lynching-draft-new-legislation-to-stop-people-taking-law-into-own-hands-says-sc-to-parliament/articleshow/65019261.cms

JESUS FUCK

WHY

WHY ARE PEOPLE THIS DUMB

FUCKIN

GAAAAAH