Saturday, 9 September 2023

Dodwell on inequality | BRICS and mortality

David Dodwell has a growing fascination with the collection of kleptocracies, theocracies and autocracies known as the BRICS.  
Somehow, because democracy is not perfect, the BRICS, this ragtag of scoundrels, are better.
Me (and also Churchill): "Democratic capitalism is the worst system … apart from all the others."

ADDED: Dodwell blames the west for failing to provide Covid vaccines to “the world’s poor”, aka Africa. But Africa had better Covid mortality outcomes than all of the west (28 times fewer deaths). Without the vaccines. No one talks about that.