alt Hacker NewsThat assumes the regime cares more about the economic prosperity of their people than about staying in power. So far they seem to care more about power. North Korea provides a model for how terrible the situation can get for every day people in that sort of arrangement.
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tdeck • today at 5:35 AM
Some level of eonomic prosperity is necessary to keep the government's key supporters (e.g. the ruling class and the army) satisfied.
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s5300 • today at 6:02 AM
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You can only let that go so far, because at the end of the day you need to pay the military to keep you in power.