So they must either be suicidal, or, think twice before trying anything stupid.
Natural selection will do its thing over the generations in such kind of a system.
Instability is bad for the wealth of a nation
That's why democratic countries are superior on average, because they're more stable
The more people have to worry about survival, the less they are willing to invest
Disagree.
lol that's basic economics
It depends on the time span.
You can disagree all you want, every economist agrees on this
Too stable countries get into stagnation over a long enough period of time because they run out of fresh ideas.
May be the economists are wrong, then.
wtf are you talking about
Stagnation of what kind?
Tell me about a society that didn't get into a stagnation?
Stagnation for ideas, challenges, innovations, a stagnation that ultimately leaves societies under a stable but uninnovative rule.
Countries that apply democracy experience stagnation less often and for shorter periods because they have a more solid foundation for investment
Countries that experience stagnation eventually turn into a shit.
For example, it's hard to properly invest in business in the middle east because shit goes bad all the time
It's a law of Nature.
You're not offering an argument for why stability causes stagnation
Im gonna have to agree with etbrood on this one
Because a stable society eventually turns into a stagnant one if you allow a particular group of people to dominate the politics.
this is how all the empires died-they let some sect o dynasty or something stamp all innovation and eventually weren't able to comply with their own rules that make them great.
Point is-stability is self-propelling, but when a system becomes too stable, it is no longer able to progress any more.
And there we get into ideas like the end of history and the death spiral for civilizations.
I've never heard of a country that was so ridiculously stable that it experienced stagnation
Can you name an example?
Thou, it's not actually a death spiral but rather the ideas of "eternal laws" or rules or constitution.
@ETBrooD Funny, almost all societies with long history are.
Especially the ancient ones.
Take ANY culture with millennia of history and you would see the pattern right there.
They had a period of boom.
What a great argument
Name a country and a period
They established a culture that was stable through tiem and then they got into a stagnation.
If there were so many you should be able to come up with one example
Classical example-Rome.
Rome wasn't stable lol
They had their boom-they managed to develop advanced social norms and technology for the time.
It paid out very well into the conquest of others and infrastructure no one could have matched at the time.
What time period during Ancient Rome are you talking about?
