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Emmett Shear: Twitch, 10 Years Later | Justin.tv, Y-Combinator, Founder to CEO

The Quest Pod with Justin Kan

CHAPTER

The Ultimate Duty of a Government Is to Avoid War

In a dictatorship, you don't have that option. Your chance of winning in an opposition election is a lot more than your chances of successfully staging a coup. And if they do win, they're very unlikely to make systemic change. I think it's very, very risky to run a system without the safety valve of like, an opposition party. You've just re invented democracy. But sometimes it actually does work. Every now and then it does work.

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