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Why is it always the absolute worst people who end up running any system that seeks total power? Hayek (GOAT) answered this in a chapter he literally titled “Why the Worst Get on Top”. 1. Dictators need a huge unified following, and simple primitive ideas build it fastest. Independent...

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