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by DANmode 3 hours ago
Benevolent dictators work.

But, looking to a US corp to be one?

That’s daft.

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They do, but only for specific definitions of "work". Like, benevolent dictators in Cuba 100% raised the literacy rate by an insane amount in just a few years (something like 20% => 80%").

If you define work as "literacy", they no doubt succeeded. But if you consider the people (and children) they tortured, raped, and murdered, suddenly literacy doesn't seem so important.

I meant in the context of a software project, for example.