Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times" channel.

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  32.  @lindakeays2864  : That's why seeing the under-the-surface conflicts of interest is so revealing, and why ANY public defections are so significant. Authoritarian/totalitarian governments become infested with "climbers" and "skimmers" with no real competence, except how to navigate the Byzantine bureaucracy and enrich themselves. Eventually, the incompetence overcomes the entire structure. The cheating and skimming then percolates DOWN, becomes a way of doing business for ALL, especially with literal millennia of "This is how things get done" that aren't much different. You see billions devoted to public works, and even when there is enough money allocated, objectively, to get it done, the low bidder then subcontracts with other low bidders, who subcontract with low bidders, and by the time it actually gets to the project, itself, the last low bidder ends up having to cheat on materials, safety and worker pay. And as many as 5 levels of contractors, each of whom took a nice slice of the pie, without doing any actual work. There's no shortage of competence in the general population, but everybody knows how things work. This is why, historically, China has been called a "paper tiger." If China could only rid itself of parasitic "warlords" (now openly crimelords), it would uncork an unprecedented amount of industry and creativity. Nobody better than an average Chinese person at making more do less. Couple that with real freedom and real meritocracy, and prosperity would EXPLODE across all of Asia, as a - for the first time in history - a rising tide of ingenuity and prosperity emanating from China lifted all boats and percolated outward to surrounding nations and nations around the world. But history teaches that there was really only ONE revolution where a vibrant, independent and free middle class was harnessed to REAL principles of liberty and equality under the law. However flawed the American Experiment was, the conditions were uniquely suited for a closer approximation to a form of limited government that truly fostered a free and prosperous nation, in 1776. USA has NEVER been PERFECT, but it's ALWAYS been pretty WONDERFUL in a multitude of ways.
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