SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Asia 'set to eclipse' US by 2030

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Originally Posted by the_tyrant (Post 1974550)

@Penguin

You are still missing my point.

What I am saying is, having 80% of 1.3 billion people backing you up makes you powerful.

Hitler might have made some bad decisions, but that does not mean he isn't powerful. Having a nation of supporters backing you up tends to make you extremely powerful.

Also, I tend to disagree with the concept that mindless supporters are all slaves. Slaves can only do basic menial labor, whereas true believers can do more advanced stuff. After all, Nazi Germany did have many brilliant scientists and generals. There are some in the country forced to believe, but much more are true believers.

Oh I got your point. However your statement, that I quoted said something universally about advantages. Yet you only argue from the government's perspective.
To me a nation consists of the people, not the government, hence my argumentation where the advantages for the population lie.

If the Chinese government is really backed up by 80% of the population, they should have no fear of free elections or the free flow of information and would have no need to imprison people for their opinions.

If you have doubts that Hitler made some bad decisions, as implied through the word "might" it's time to get the good ole history books out, even the most fierce Nazi would claim that Adolf did indeed made mistakes.

Also does is the word "slave" defined through ownership, not by the kind of work they do. Though I agree, that volunteers are certainly more productive. Let's call them programmed work drones instead.

You also don't recognize how many brilliant minds left Germany because of the dictatorship. A non-Nazi 1930s/40s Germany would have had even more brain potential.
Many scientists in the 3rd Reich who stayed, would have also worked under another government. The rocket scientists the USSR and the US imported after WW2 are surely the most prominent examples.