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The political consequences will be interesting. One of the consolations if living under a tyrant is that they will, eventually die. I wonder if having Robert Mu
by buyx 13y ago
The political consequences will be interesting. One of the consolations if living under a tyrant is that they will, eventually die. I wonder if having Robert Mugabe around for another 40 years would excite Zimbabweans. The flip-side is that citizens could get more politically active if they couldn't rely on death to prevent gerontocracies.
- orangecat 13y agoNorth Korea's tyrants eventually die, but that doesn't help as long as they have equally tyrannical descendants ready to take over.
- krrrh 13y agoAnother interesting flipside might be that people become less willing to participate in a revolution for the sake of improving a few decades of their own lives and the lives of future generations when the risk of dying in a revolution means potentially giving up hundreds of years of one's own useful living.