Oh goodness no. I pray I never come into any real political power.
For fun I’ve already run the numbers on how many adult humans will fit into the cargo holds of a decommissioned Panamax bulker.
WHAT
Don’t worry about it
Well, I’ve managed to win every election legitimately in Tropico 5 so far while making sure there’s plenty of housing, education, jobs, food, and healthcare.
So guess so.
seems contradictory, dictators are almost never benevolent. They wouldn’t be a dictator if they were benevolent. the only thing they do is immediately cede power to a " council or a elected persons. unless you mean something like diety that is benevolent, ruling from the “shadows” through another leader.
No.
Not because I’m evil, but because I am empathetic and someone evil would absolutely figure out a way to use that to manipulate me.
I could BE a benevolent dictator, I could never BECOME a benevolent dictator. The process of getting there would exclude me, because I would reject the power structure needed to form the dictatorship in the first place.
I wouldn’t be fucking kids and sending goon squads after minorities and into cities to harass my political opponents if that is what you are asking.
The ‘not evil’ bar is currently riding on the same high speed train the Republicans put their goalposts on.
how dare you question my benevolence. to the pits with you.
I’d be too much of a lazy dictator to do anything truly evil.
I’ll be happy to be your evil grand vizier, if you need one.
Underrated comment, power that sits unused will get preyed on.
My Tropico track record says that I absolutely can.
With my dictatorial powers … my first action would be to seize and outlaw extreme wealth. No one would be allowed to own more than $1 million.
All the money collected would be used for government and providing a Universal Basic Income for everyone.
And I’d get a designer to make me a big fancy hat.
The shortest dictatorship in history…
That is increadibly hard to do.
- How do you define what goes into that 1 million of allowed wealth? If I buy a house worth 950000, would I only be allowed to save 50000.
- what about if the house increase in value so that it is worth 2 million, should I just accept that I loose 1 million? What about stocks?
- Inflation or Deflation, when/how will you update that limit?
Remove housing from the commodity market - save your one mil in cash.
Stocks are outlawed.
I agree with your take on this. I think 1M is way too low. But 1 Billion… It’s a bit easier to imagine the “you can’t or the dictatorship will seize something” idea.
The reality is that the wealthiest people usually influence the most
Probably not.
I mean, I don’t think there’s a chance of doing some really fucked up shit, like genociding people; but I’d certainly be biased toward things that I want and not necessarily what the majority wants. I’d be a little bit corrupt, but I can’t even envision a path that would lead me to be evil.
For a couple months, maybe. Anyone who says yes absolutely is someone who shouldn’t be trusted with power.
But I know I can be the best dictator ever! 😉
What’s that? You disagree? Sounds like I need to send some of my people to your house to educate you on what I’m doing until you can until you can understand that its for the greater good 🤗
(you may not refuse my mandatory education program, I’ll be watch you 👀)
-Sincerely,
Your best friend and dictator
🥰
I think there are many people out there who could.
To me, the problem isn’t being a benevolent dictator; it’s getting a benevolent person there in a benevolent way.
Yeah the problem is mostly that benevolent people don’t actually want to be dictators much less do what it takes to become one.
