[sshumaker]

Monarchies usually result in long-term thinking? I’m sure we haven’t read the same history books. Most monarchs throughout history have been very self-interested and their decisions have been focused on their own personal interest - the definition of short-term.

I’m not claiming democracy is any better - humans are notoriously bad at long-term thinking unfortunately.

[passivegains]

I mean, some of those personal interests were long term too. "Peasants need food within the next few days or they'll die": short term interests of the people. "I need aristocrats to take everyone's grain so I can make them be knights and keep people from overthrowing me": long term interests of the monarch. the people are very good at identifying their short-term interests (not starving,) but it's hard to figure out long-term collective interests (exactly how much grain to give up for however many armored guys on horses you need.) this is why modern democracies are usually republics.