I’d analogize it more to traders who make money during a bull market, except in this case the bull market is ‘industrialization’. Yeah, turns out even a dictator like Stalin or Xi can look like ‘a great leader’ who has ‘mastered the currents of history’ and refuted liberal democracy—well, until they run out of industrialization & catchup growth, anyway.
I’d analogize it more to traders who make money during a bull market, except in this case the bull market is ‘industrialization’. Yeah, turns out even a dictator like Stalin or Xi can look like ‘a great leader’ who has ‘mastered the currents of history’ and refuted liberal democracy—well, until they run out of industrialization & catchup growth, anyway.
Yeah that’s a better one