Hacker News with Generative AI: Political Analysis

Musk's less than original measures: Developing the ideas of his grandfather (elpais.com)
Khanate is a word that describes a political entity governed by a khan, a leader of Turkish-Mongol origin. Similarly, the term “technocracy” referred in the 1930s in the United States to a potential country governed by technicians or technocrats. This story is relevant because some analysts believe that Elon Musk does not represent anything new, but rather brings back a movement that existed between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the successful arrival of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
From Reform to Ruin in the USSR (cogitations.co)
“A nation so poorly prepared to act independently could not attempt total reform without total destruction. An absolute monarch would have been a less dangerous innovator.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
Thomas Piketty: 'The Draghi report is a step in the right direction' (lemonde.fr)
Let's face it: The report on Europe's competitiveness and future submitted by Mario Draghi to the European Commission is a step in the right direction.