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795: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part Two

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Is It Autocracy or Democracies?

We try and illustrate the arguments in as many contexts as we can. And it turns out dictatorships, they have shorter roads to the airport from the center of the city. They're just straight up much more direct. If you want to build a network from New York City to bring people into Manhattan, which, oh, God, they do need so badly, it's so much harder to do that. So very simply, we just sort of took what's the crow flies distance between the centre of the capital and the airport and how long do you have to drive? It wasn't hard. You just look at capitals and you measure some distances on Google Earth and then put the directions in

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