However, chaos is a necessary condition for economic development and growth. As I see it, raising the barriers to investment isn't necessarily bad for Thailand before the economic crisis, specifically to that case of course. Like you said, it generates revenue. Though that is like forcing people to do it your way too. Going along with this, us telling people to liberalize trade when they don't want to is also telling others what to do too, no matter how dumb we think their close-off economic policies are.
- Celine