As if you have demonstrated evidence of any sort?
That's literally what you said, my homie: "Those two things happeded at the same time" means it's a correlation. Scientifically it's your burden to proof that it's actually a causal relation afterwards.
Yes, we have established that you disagree. Not that you have provided any evidence whatsoever that a lower minimum can be reached by another path
Yes. Better living standards have been reached outside the framework of liberal democracy. In fact: All significant improvements in living standards have been fought for outside the system. Examples are: Any successful, liberatory revolution. (Like the french one, or the German one.
And yeah, the totalitarian path to a better minimum has been tried multiple times. It didn't work out so well.
I agree. That's why I'm not an authoritarian, but an anarchist.