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I wonder what would happen if a country like U.S. would say "Ok, we failed, fk democracy, from tomorrow we hire Steve Jobs (or any CEO of that caliber like Jeff

I wonder what would happen if a country like U.S. would say "Ok, we failed, fk democracy, from tomorrow we hire Steve Jobs (or any CEO of that caliber like Jeff Bezos) to run the country. Senate and House can go home, we don't need them."

Cushman 15y ago
It'd be nothing new. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Edit: That article has a few appropriate quotes, actually. During his early career, Caesar had seen how chaotic and dysfunctional the Roman Republic had become. The republican machinery had broken down under the weight of imperialism, the central government had become powerless, the provinces had been transformed into independent principalities under the absolute control of their governors, and the army had replaced the constitution as the means of accomplishing political goals. With a weak central government, political corruption had spiraled out of control, and the status quo had been maintained by a corrupt aristocracy, which saw no need to change a system that had made its members rich.
- gte910h 15y ago
  This actually had been done a couple times before. The person who actually did it most completely was not Caesar, but instead Sulla (the generation before Caesar). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla They were called the Cornealian Laws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla#Dictatorship_and_Constitutional_Reforms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla#Dictator... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Reforms_of_Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Reforms_of_Luciu... Caesar did similar things, but in the other direction, and less like the guy specified.
  - Cushman 15y ago
    It certainly has a rich tradition! Although I don't think it's accurate to say Sulla took power more completely than Caesar did... Remember that Dictator was an actual office in the Republic, normally time limited, and that Sulla voluntarily resigned the post where Caesar took it all the way to Dictator for Life.
    - gte910h 15y ago
      He didn't do really the same thing at all: I just think he did more of a "Yo Steve, go Run this Country" sort of thing. Also Sulla's dictatorial term was notably NOT time limited.

Cushman 15y ago

It'd be nothing new. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Edit: That article has a few appropriate quotes, actually. During his early career, Caesar had seen how chaotic and dysfunctional the Roman Republic had become. The republican machinery had broken down under the weight of imperialism, the central government had become powerless, the provinces had been transformed into independent principalities under the absolute control of their governors, and the army had replaced the constitution as the means of accomplishing political goals. With a weak central government, political corruption had spiraled out of control, and the status quo had been maintained by a corrupt aristocracy, which saw no need to change a system that had made its members rich.

gte910h 15y ago
This actually had been done a couple times before. The person who actually did it most completely was not Caesar, but instead Sulla (the generation before Caesar). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla They were called the Cornealian Laws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla#Dictatorship_and_Constitutional_Reforms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla#Dictator... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Reforms_of_Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Reforms_of_Luciu... Caesar did similar things, but in the other direction, and less like the guy specified.
- Cushman 15y ago
  It certainly has a rich tradition! Although I don't think it's accurate to say Sulla took power more completely than Caesar did... Remember that Dictator was an actual office in the Republic, normally time limited, and that Sulla voluntarily resigned the post where Caesar took it all the way to Dictator for Life.
  - gte910h 15y ago
    He didn't do really the same thing at all: I just think he did more of a "Yo Steve, go Run this Country" sort of thing. Also Sulla's dictatorial term was notably NOT time limited.