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Successful Monarchies Are Really Oligarchies

Neoreactionaries romanticize monarchy mistakenly, because in equilibrium kings are almost always 'king and council'—something more like a corporate board than either a sole entrepreneur-owner or a stationary-bandit monarch—so the successful so-called monarchies aren't really monarchies but oligarchies.

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Speaker

Garett Jones

Evidence Quote

Something more like a corporate board and less like either the libertarian ideal of the entrepreneur who owns the firm, or the monarch who has the long-term interest in being a stationary bandit.

Source

Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracyDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:31:19 AM

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