This reminds me of what Dan Carlin called "rolling the monarchy dice" in his Hardcore History podcast.
If you get a good dictator, things get done with little friction, because the power rests on a single person's shoulders. But if you get a bad one, you're stuck with it.
Democracy might be slower and less inefficient, but it's reliably slower and less efficient.
If you get a good dictator, things get done with little friction, because the power rests on a single person's shoulders. But if you get a bad one, you're stuck with it.
Democracy might be slower and less inefficient, but it's reliably slower and less efficient.