[SecretDreams]

Dictatorships work as long as they're benevolent, much like democracies work as long as they aren't bought.

[dominicrose]

It depends what you mean by work. Technology - among a myriad of other things - enables the worst dictators to stay in power, even if the country as a whole doesn't work.

[SecretDreams]

Work in my post was "work for the people".