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I've read that their governance was geared towards stability, not growth or disruption. It helps with keeping things going for a long time.
I'm confused. How could their leaders earn a big enough quarterly bonus to blow on cocaine?
Edit: This might be something modern government models could adapt and use, to everyone's benefit... If we can just crack the cocaine challenges with it.
I think I'm joking, except I can't stop thinking about how a universal basic cocaine subsidy might actually be what is needed to convince a bunch of problematic leaders to retire...
I suspect it's unbridled psychopathic greed that's the problem.
That still doesn't answer whether a universal basic cocaine subsidy would solve the problem.
Cocaine is actually quite cheap to make...
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I mean, maybe - but its not hard to focus on stability instead of growth when you're the only game in town.
They did pretty damned well against the Hittites and Lybians, Egypt only really started to struggle when the bronze age collapse happened. Frankly speaking when you are durable enough to weather an apocalypse you are doing pretty good, the only other ones I can think of that pulled the same was the Assyrians who I'm pretty sure are gonna outlast every other culture at this rate.