Better billionaires than kings.
Kings sometimes had a sense of the noblesse oblige, though. Hereditary kingship can also be thought of as an investment in good genes and good bloodlines. Billionaires may seem like they're products of markets, and therefore better selected for, but markets have a lot of chance
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If there's anything that's a product of pure chance, it's the quality of a hereditary monarch.
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Wrong. Fights for succession culled the unfit to rule. Imagine Macron surviving that. The only tho errors monarchs has were a) having favourites b) not having enough children.
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