> As outside civilizations compete against you, your conditions will become more and more constrained.
This explains why I think China is currently "winning at economy" and will do so even more in the future, simply because they can see long term since the removal of the two-term limit of their president[1], and other[2] tactics[3].
From a "god’s-eye-view", countries should not withdraw democracy & freedom from the hands of their citizens. But logically, I think this gives an incentive for all other countries to also take this unfair advantage (become capitalist dictatorships) in order to compete with China. But I'm not sure how logically this will play out in the next few decades.
My question is: what's stopping us from doing that?