Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati...
by zozbot234 on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:13AM
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> Dictatorships don’t revolve around the intelligence of the dictator, but around their ego.
This is a problem with all hierarchically-driven organizations in the absence of adequate checks and balances, not just dictatorships. It affects all sorts of privately-run hierarchies as much as the various sorts of internal hierarchies which operate within governments (including, to a varying extent, nominally democratic ones).
Of course, it's not always clear that these problems can be even mitigated, let alone resolved. We still use large organizational hierarchies to do all sorts of things 'at scale', while acknowledging their drawbacks.
This is a problem with all hierarchically-driven organizations in the absence of adequate checks and balances, not just dictatorships. It affects all sorts of privately-run hierarchies as much as the various sorts of internal hierarchies which operate within governments (including, to a varying extent, nominally democratic ones).
Of course, it's not always clear that these problems can be even mitigated, let alone resolved. We still use large organizational hierarchies to do all sorts of things 'at scale', while acknowledging their drawbacks.