Monarchy's: I feel like you guys arrived at where I generally fall. They can work in small kingdoms with good monarchs but generally are bad news. Many Kings will thing long term: like "how can I extract maximum power and money from my people in the long term." Long term thinking isn't always better. It's finding the appropriate priority between long-term and short-term that is needed.
Democracy is the best bad form of government we've found.
To answer the Question of the week, I usually download as I que a few podcasts to listen to.
https://fountain.fm/episode/xnB6FcvSpSzbnPjoht6q
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