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benevolent dictators create problems of succession not b/c of lack of a worthy heir but b/c of the power vacuum that’s created in the transition just like the secondary blast wind from the vacuum an explosion creates, this is a violent motion that can cause permanent damage

the power vacuum creates a hard STOP to the political decision making in a system. depending on degree of decentralization, this is akin to widespread simultaneous decision insolvency e.g. imagine if all apple’s executives died together in a plane crash

benevolent dictatorships by definition see the value of high centralization so the result of a power vacuum stops the beating heart of the state unless it was sufficiently delegated early enough once signs of power/health waning began to show

in a decentralized state, the ECONOMY is the decision making engine. the hard effects of a dictator suddenly dying and an economy suddenly stopping are the same, no one knows what to do with themselves anymore

the resulting anarchy and chaos is held in check only by culture. japan would be safe. gun toting macho poor desperate areas would be unsafe.

the u.s. relative to other nation states is a believer in market decisions over individual hooman decisions in the absence of a market, the central state as the fallback is atrophied and must first reassert its decision making ability through printing money