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794: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part One

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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What Happened to Hurricane Katrina?

In an autocracy, emergency planning is not only non-existent or ineffective, it's actually contrary to the interests of the leader and the government. And democracies have an incentive to plan better because if we don't do this well, the leaders take a lot of shit for it. Even in democracies, we redistribute, but it's very bad form until lots of people die. But to the extent you can, that it still happens in democracy, it just doesn't happen as much.

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