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This is false. Technology advances faster when there are many competing states. Empires stagnate. They become decadent. They become repressive and authoritarian and crackdown on creativity. Liberal democracies shit on Empires when it comes to producing technology. The small but highly motivated and competitive countries of Europe ran rings around the big empires that had nothing left to conquer and had tremendous wealth like the Indians and Chinese.
That is some of the most ignorant nonsense I've seen here
Indians and Chinese Empires did not stagnate because they had nothing left to conquer, they were conquered by the far technologically advanced western civilization, who were highly motivated and competitive, but they were certainly not 'small', and not only did they amass tremendous wealth but they used it well
At this point in time, western countries are really shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to R&D, China may seem like a backward country compared to ours, who only steals our tech, but in a couple of decades they will surpass us because they invest a significant amount of their capital in research, especially pertaining to quantum tech and artificial intelligence, while we are still relying on the magic of free market, which certainly moves ahead but at a slower rate
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