Try to Rule Fairly and You'll Be Overthrown

Video summary of The Dictator's Handbook on ruler incentives

“here's a great video, Rules for Rulers, which is basically a video TL;DR of "The Dictator's Handbook”

Short intro to selectorate theory and dictator stability

“Or this nice little video”

Outline of how rulers and resource wealth interact

“CGPGrey's rules for rulers is a very good outline of this and other related topics”

> People with power and wealth could still be toppled when you exposed them to the truth. How in the fuck does that even come close to happening today? I have doubts that this happened regularly in the past, usually wealthy/powerful were allowed to be toppled by their enemies. I don't know the details of how Weinstein got toppled after so many years of being protected, but my gut says that the people who were protecting him no longer felt like it was worth it to continue. In revolutions, it's not the people that overthrow the dictator, it's the court/army which allow the people to overthrow the dictator, in order for them to install a new dictator[0]. > How do you overcome marketing that is engineered to exploit the psychological vulnerabilities you are not even aware of? Become more aware of your vulnerabilities so as to be aware of when you're being exploited. I recommend mindfulness and then making note of when you're being triggered in either a positive or negative way. If you know the enemy and yourself, you need not fear the result of a thousand battles[1]. > How do we patch our society and governing systems from being pwned? As these systems become more complex it requires more energy and complexity to maintain the systems, this additional complexity creates a larger attack surface and more internal fragility. Solving these problems requires more energy and complexity, exacerbating the problem and delivering diminishing returns on additional complexity. Systems should