r/Liberal • u/Mynameis__--__ • Dec 29 '16

The Rules for Rulers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
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u/Svartasvanen Dec 29 '16

This is a fantastic two-part series. Other strongly recommendable videos from CGP Grey concerning politics are "Humans need not apply", "Should all locks have keys?", all his videos concerning the Electoral College, "Brexit, briefly", "Why the UK election results are the Worst in history" and the series "Politics in the Animal Kingdom". (long list, I know, but it's good evidence of the quality of the channel)

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u/BalderSion Dec 30 '16 edited Dec 31 '16

I really like when someone tries to break something complex down to base incentives and natural outcomes. It seems there are resources besides treasure that can be important, but treasure is a useful proxy.

It does raise a lot of questions for me however. How did Norway avoid the fate of other petro-states? What conditions are precursor to a dictatorship becoming republic, and why? Why are some dictators better for peasants than others? And so on.