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MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
While a benevolent dictatorship would be the best at achieving progress and addressing inequality the problem is, assuming you manage to get him to power and keep him from being assassinated what happens when he naturally dies? Looking back at world history very rarely was an excellent king succeeded by another great king, most of the time you got a mediocre son in power or even worse, a complete nut and then you're stuck with a murderous bastard for god know how many decades. I can't even think of any 3 consecutive great kings apart of the Five Good Emperors. The point is you can't guarantee a new benevolent dictator will always be on the line for succession and when that fails you're hosed.

So I guess we're stuck with the current oligarchies and hope they don't gently caress the rest of us to the point we're forced into another head cutting extravaganza before we come up with a Culture-like AI.


e: :laugh:

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Sep 29, 2015

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