> I didn't say that dictatorships are better at making good decisions or result in a more efficient society simply that they are more effectient at making a decision.
I think that one comes with asterisks too. The cultures in dictatorship are often pretty good at avoiding decisions at all cost. The price can be high for making decision someone in power does not like, better to do nothing or appear to have no opinions. Moreover, you don't want to appear to be making decisions, so that you don't look like threat for people who could be jealous and destroy you.
Communist system was largely characterized by passivity.
Even if the dictator himself can make decision at whim, the structures around him tend to insulate him from the rest of world. Oftentimes simply to protect this or that real world interest. Which means they end up not making decisions.
I think that one comes with asterisks too. The cultures in dictatorship are often pretty good at avoiding decisions at all cost. The price can be high for making decision someone in power does not like, better to do nothing or appear to have no opinions. Moreover, you don't want to appear to be making decisions, so that you don't look like threat for people who could be jealous and destroy you.
Communist system was largely characterized by passivity.
Even if the dictator himself can make decision at whim, the structures around him tend to insulate him from the rest of world. Oftentimes simply to protect this or that real world interest. Which means they end up not making decisions.