>>63838525Race makes shit third world, its frankly the only salient factor. His stated hiring criteria selects more for preexisting troublemakers and loyalists as well, most of the suits aren't spergs, nerds, or bean counters so their actual utility is limited.
>>63837909China is a shithole which is almost entirely concerned about "face", so claiming that they have a secret state which is actually competent when every time we get a peek under the hood all we see is incompetence and graft is a strange assumption.
>>63837960The issue is less a matter of "authoritarianism" and more due to the fact that all these "authoritarian" states were founded, staffed, and still organized by politicos first and foremost. These are not warrior kings, mad scientist terrorists, chaos space marines, or barbarian raiders who set themselves up as a nobility. These are politico faggots who scrabbled to the top of the masses via political means rather than raw force. These faggots aren't even technocrats; and here I'm more referring to the old "robber barron" era elites and the early Progressive Era elites of the US than modern techbros.
Authoritarian political structures post 1900 are rotting piles of back-stabbing, clique shit, graft, and outright theft of governmental resources specifically because those were the means by which the structures were established and thus their very nature selects for those traits in those who effectively become the nobility. The reason they are bloated inefficient messes who put on airs of efficiency is because that's what everybody is doing individually within the system itself. The system wasn't made by an Alexander, Caesar, or Napoleon who for any of their other flaws were capable administrators who did rule top down. They are created by slimy faggots who slinked their way to the top. A country ruled by a coalition of warlords for example would look very different.
