It gets rid of good leaders, too. As Marcus Aurelius put it when I asked him about it, “I just don’t know what would’ve happened to Rome if I’d had a finite lifespan.”
Think of it as preventing the long-term operation of differential compound interest.
On the other hand, good governments tend to be stable under changes in leadership, while bad governments are often unstable when they lose their leader. At least that’s true these days, when dictatorships are mostly bad governments and good governments typically take the form of a democracy which regularly changes its leadership with little change to the government.
It gets rid of good leaders, too. As Marcus Aurelius put it when I asked him about it, “I just don’t know what would’ve happened to Rome if I’d had a finite lifespan.”
Think of it as preventing the long-term operation of differential compound interest.
On the other hand, good governments tend to be stable under changes in leadership, while bad governments are often unstable when they lose their leader. At least that’s true these days, when dictatorships are mostly bad governments and good governments typically take the form of a democracy which regularly changes its leadership with little change to the government.