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 is solar hydrogen.

Thus, a generic formula emerges:

1. DMS for democratizing a resource so that the capital base of the dictatorship is extniguished. This will tend to bring in added accountability, under the assumption of functional institutions.
2. 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 that produce mutually assured abundance.
3. For democratic governance, the youth must be brought up to responsibility - to take over old politics of tyranny. This can happen only through education for responsibility, just like we are developing with the OSE Fellowship.