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		adrianN on Feb 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We can’t leave it to billionaires to solve the wor... Benevolent dictators are the most effective may to govern, but it's really hard to prevent malicious dictators from rising in such a system.

nickpp on Feb 21, 2020 | [–]

All the dictators I know were non-billionaire politicians first.

cryptica on Feb 21, 2020 | [–]

I think even malicious dictators are OK. They don't last forever and they give the system a good cleanup.

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