Comment by LarsDu88

This is a terrible conundrum. The nations that sink resources into improving aggregate economic measures are the most competitive and quite possibly even the most likely to triumph in armed conflicts. The average per capita GDP will be enormous, but the median per capita GDP will be incredibly small.

The vast majority of voters would vote for the shittier economy, which in fact is what we are seeing right now? And who ends up being the winners? Presumably dictatorships that can sink capital into things like automation while simply not giving a shit about the desires of the citizenry...