Restlessness is useless when it is condensed and exploited to empower those chaining them.
And when it's not? Consider Ukraine. Or if you want to go a bit further in time the whole collapse of the USSR and its satellites.
It is always more advantageous for a leader to worry more about their reign and extend it than to be benevolent
I don't see why. It is advantageous for a leader to have satisfied and so complacent subjects. Benevolence can be a good tool.
And when it's not? Consider Ukraine. Or if you want to go a bit further in time the whole collapse of the USSR and its satellites.
Outcompeted by economic superpowers. Purge people all you want, if there are advantages to being integrated into the world economic system, the people who explicitly leave will suffer the consequences. China did not choose such a fate, but neither is it rebelling.
I don't see why. It is advantageous for a leader to have satisfied and so complacent subjects. Benevolence can be a good tool.
Benevolence is expensive. You will ...
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