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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @06:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @06:47PM (#1112868)

    Only the citizenry care about their well being. Surrendering the political agency of the group to an individual is useful for making war, not running society...

  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday February 26 2021, @06:08AM

    by Arik (4543) on Friday February 26 2021, @06:08AM (#1117472) Journal
    The fun thing is if the society that nurtures the well-being of its citizens can just somehow survive a little while; say by being surrounded by ocean and relatively weak neighbors on limited land borders; then it will produce surplus wealth so much more quickly than potential competitors that it can go from a backwards colony to the new Big Chicken in a couple centuries.

    The unfortunate thing is that the next step usually involves the Big Chicken being a gigantic barbarian Cock to everyone else until they all gang up and remove his testicles. Even more unfortunate, the titanic expenditures of resources on all sides can be sufficient to set a race back several steps; often this does not leave sufficient heavy materials in the crust of the host planet to support a *second* attempt at the stars.

    And so the entire race may die stillborn; entombed within the gravity-well in which they were conceived.
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