I don't think efficiency and sterility, or either sterility or rutality, are necessarily associated. I think that those are sort of evidence of inefficiency. One of the things that's really surprising and unpleasant about kind of china beating the west at its own aim in sertof so many ways is the number of ways in which things in china just obviously work extremely badly. For most people in the west, in places like the us, the chinese regime is intuitively horific, and they just hate it. They'd like to live in a freer, more colorful, less centralized wold.

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