Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why China Remained Poor for Centuries" video.

  1. Autocracy rules over a brittle society, one whose people would either stand by or run away rather than help defend the state when attacked because of the lack of investment in the politics. But this is the norm for China, as a Chinese ethnostate has never seen anything but top-down impunity until Taiwan democratized at the end of the Cold War. Mainland China however doubles down on its aristocracy (in this case a Party instead of an imperial family), and risks the same violent chaotic popping of its insular political bubble that befell every dynasty before it.
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  2. VisualEconomik really needs to spend the literally one minute to learn how to pronounce names correctly, or at least sound like they try. An apparent cold read is not only distracting but also hints at not actually researching the topic. Their Korean is even worse.
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