Solving for Dictatorship

Thoughts on Potential Solutions

Dictatorships are one of several kinds. Many are founded on abundance of commercially viable natural resources such as oil. These include Russia, Nigeria, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Others do not have abundant resources outside of widespread resentment.

One powerful solution is to embargo, ie, not contract with assholes. In this case, the enabler is post-scarcity resources. For oil, the solution can solar hydrogen.

Thus, a generic formula emerges:

1. DMS is engaged for democratizing a resource so that the capital base of the dictatorship is extniguished. This will tend to bring in added accountability in a more equitable system, under the assumption of functional institutions.
2. Democratic institutions. Since highly-functioning, democratic institutions are typically lacking in the scenarios of interest, democratization assitance can be offered in the form of sizeable transition agreements or enterprise packages of open source productivity that produce mutually assured abundance.
3. Transformative Education. For democratic governance, the youth must be brought up to responsibility - to take over old politics of resentment. This can happen only through education for responsibility - based on functional, high-output generating mental models of reality. Just like we are developing with the OSE Fellowship.