States are driven by incentives like any entity. their primary incentives are CRIME and SURVIVAL.

Without a survival threat, they commit crime as deep as they can.

Only deep catastrophe triggers economic reforms (seen globally in 20th/21st century market reforms). After all, why grant freedom when things are "passing"?

Reforms aren't about liberty, but the political class's recognition of crisis and act of survival.

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