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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I've read that their governance was geared towards stability, not growth or disruption. It helps with keeping things going for a long time.

I'm confused. How could their leaders earn a big enough quarterly bonus to blow on cocaine?

Edit: This might be something modern government models could adapt and use, to everyone's benefit... If we can just crack the cocaine challenges with it.

I think I'm joking, except I can't stop thinking about how a universal basic cocaine subsidy might actually be what is needed to convince a bunch of problematic leaders to retire...

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I suspect it's unbridled psychopathic greed that's the problem.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

That still doesn't answer whether a universal basic cocaine subsidy would solve the problem.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Cocaine is actually quite cheap to make...