How good people’s lives under CCP today is not necessarily a good proxy for how good they would be in case CCP had assured worldwhile rule. Today, the possibility of loosing power and the example of liberal democracies is surely a moderating influence.
“Are there incentives for the CPP to do things that would make people’s lives unpleasant?” is not the right question because CCP is not a single entity subject to incentives—it is a group of individuals operating on their individual incentives that are never perfectly aligned with the organization. In fact, that’s pretty much the issue—the CCP form of government has a potential to suffer from significant internal misalignment of incentives that could result in highly undesirable outcomes in the future.
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How good people’s lives under CCP today is not necessarily a good proxy for how good they would be in case CCP had assured worldwhile rule. Today, the possibility of loosing power and the example of liberal democracies is surely a moderating influence.
“Are there incentives for the CPP to do things that would make people’s lives unpleasant?” is not the right question because CCP is not a single entity subject to incentives—it is a group of individuals operating on their individual incentives that are never perfectly aligned with the organization. In fact, that’s pretty much the issue—the CCP form of government has a potential to suffer from significant internal misalignment of incentives that could result in highly undesirable outcomes in the future.