Moving between democracy and dictatorship several times in my life I can say this: it mainly boils down to how well your interests align with the interests of t

Moving between democracy and dictatorship several times in my life I can say this: it mainly boils down to how well your interests align with the interests of the one(s) in power. The main difference is that if your interests don't align you'll have a much harder life in a dictatorship than in a democracy, special cases (like Singapore) notwithstanding. For every Singapore there's more than one Myanmar.