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It is hard to drill this in the mind of people who grew up under stable governments, but dictators have this terrible habit of sacrificing prosperity to gain co
by DanielHB 2y ago
It is hard to drill this in the mind of people who grew up under stable governments, but dictators have this terrible habit of sacrificing prosperity to gain control (often sacrificing the former without gaining the later). Being a dictator and surrounded by yes-man, they also tend to act less rationally and less predictably than your average democratic leader.
History is full of kings who started terrible wars and got their countries screwed in the process. You can't apply game theory this kind of people.
- VerminOctopus1 2y ago[flagged]
- jorts 2y agoHe is a dictator who has surrounded himself with yes men and purged everyone else.
- coliveira 2y agoThis looks more like a description of Trump...
- deeviant 2y ago[flagged]
- gp 2y agoThis was my take, as well.
- DanielHB 2y agoIt is a spectrum not a yes/no answer.
- darkhorse222 2y agoHe's probably rational, but he's certainly not democratically elected and has ousted all his enemies. What do you define as a dictator? He's accountable to no one.
- inglor_cz 2y agoEven rational actors may make bad decisions if they are badly informed, and given how risky it usually is to bring bad news to the emperor, chances are that Xi is fed with data that is a bit rosier than it should.
- nine_k 2y agoIt is rational for a dictator to increase their power at the expense of some prosperity of the populace. Communist rulers around the world exhibited this trait, but non-Communist rulers also did the same from times immemorial.