Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Peter Zeihan || Demographics Part 7: The Northeast Asian Crash" video.

  1. Enabled by the opacity of authoritarian bureaucracy. Opacity goes both ways—the same obscurity that keeps citizens in the dark about what the government is doing keeps the leaders in the dark about the facts on the ground.
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  2. Digitally = counting on your fingers 😊 Bureaucracies in democratic states can be notoriously inefficient. Inefficiency and bureaucracy are practically synonymous. A bureaucracy in an authoritarian state is even worse because of factional competition for power under an authoritarian leader or junta: the leader sets up competing and redundant factions that vie for his favor and a slice of the pie. As bad as our government bureaucracies are in the West, they are nothing like the bureaucracies of dictatorships which are riddled with corruption. I used to despise big government. I’ve become resigned to it. I’ve come to see that the job of the conservative is to act as a check on big government, not to destroy it. We are the ones that must hold the bureaucracy’s feet to the fire and keep it honest. In my mind, the honest conservative program is not to shrink or destroy big government, but to slow down its expansion and create boundaries where it shouldn’t expand.
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  3.  @Nobleheart111  What do they say about assumptions? They make an ass out of ump and tions?
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  4.  @howardhowe3453  what does ASSumption cause? Consumption of the ASS?😮 Y’all need to get your pithy sayings right. 😂
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  5. You’re missing the form of the corruption. It’s not the same being born, it’s fictional students being counted. It’s similar to how corrupt militaries are stronger on paper so commanders can collect the salaries of imaginary soldiers. So it’s not the same number of babies being born or children entering primary school.
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  6.  @MrAstrojensen  Yup. Even if the counting is accurate at the local and district level, the corruption has been going on so long that they benefit from the inaccuracy and would be hurt by factual reporting of figures. It’s similar to how production figures get fudged in a communist economic system to meet or exceed quotas.
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  7. This isn’t a trend, it’s a constant. Don’t panic. 😅
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  8.  @bentnickel7487  Better off, not necessarily fine in the longer term. But I don’t want to be overly pessimistic, either. Diminishing expectations? Check. Reason to panic? Not so much.
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