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The dictator’s handbook: why bad behavior is almost always good

I’m not interested in politics, and never really understand how a country runs. I’m just more and more aware that if it really exists and more or less my life will have something to do with it the I’d better know the rule and try to understand it.

In fact, this book gives me a really new perspective to view politics and how it works. And it cannot only be applied to policy/ country, but almost every organization like companies.

No matter democracy or autocracy, they are made up of three groups of people, interchangeable influential and essential. And the winners, they just want to stay in power and the only difference lies in the size of coalition. So their action differs because the people they need to plaisir differ.

Not everyone wants the same thing, not everything is good for everyone. But no one wants to cause misery, there’s not that much conspiracy theory, it’s only the conflict of benefit.

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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason

— JP Morgan

Also the resource curse analysis also strikes me a bit.

Why those resource(like oil) rich countries always have poor people. Because those in power don’t rely on labor for their wealth, so they can stay in power without encouraging people being educated or working, and it can even better guarantee their authority.