If you were to 'take over Iraq' the first thing will happen is that one of your political challengers will use all of their means to usurp you.
The issues are power, control, corruption, clan loyalty, incompetence, dysfunction, bureaucracy, radicalism, laziness, embezzlement, short nearsightedness, lack of key resources, petty infighting, political inconsistency and duplicity from supporting nations, bureaucracy etc..
What happens when the entire system is corrupt? The Judiciary, Police, the Army, the politicians? Everyone is trying to embezzle, selling votes, stuffing ballot boxes, using multiple ledgers, giving their family members jobs, handing out MD's to the rich kids?
Some Billionaire owns the TV Station and is lying about you daily, destroying your ratings. There are protesters outside your door while you're trying to 'plan the buildings'.
The guy who funded your campaign to ascension wants special state-guaranteed contracts.
The rebels in that 'ugly border area' have killed some civilians and the locals want blood.
... and consider that many of the same kinds of constraints exist even in modern countries.
'Building Bridges vs. Schools' is completely pedantic exercise.
They should make the game called 'Saddam' and see how a regular person might fare at that 'job'.
Pull the rug with negative interest rates and land value taxes and general anti rent seeking policies to make corruption highly unprofitable.
If you get 10 million through corruption you are basically set for life in a positive interest/rent seeking environment because interest acts like a force multiplier on your original act of corruption that gets stronger over time. So your personal goal is to earn as much money as possible, as early as possible and through any foul means. I.e. the reward function strongly favours corruption.
With a negative interest rate, corruption no longer guarantees a high social status and automatic wealth accumulation which means you will have to do honest work until you retire if you want to keep your money. Automatic wealth accumulation is the primary metric that makes money laundering profitable or not. If you can only make 25% of the stolen money clean you can still grow it exponentially over time after it is clean.
If the land value tax is paid out as a dividend then everyone, even the destitute, would benefit from classic USA style homeowner corruption (artificially distorting the allocation of land by restricting it's use).
Another form of corruption would be to spend your student loan on Bitcoin when it was still under one thousand and then skipping college because you "made it". You earned money without producing anything, you are a net negative to society if you don't work for even a little bit.
If you were to 'take over Iraq' the first thing will happen is that one of your political challengers will use all of their means to usurp you.
The issues are power, control, corruption, clan loyalty, incompetence, dysfunction, bureaucracy, radicalism, laziness, embezzlement, short nearsightedness, lack of key resources, petty infighting, political inconsistency and duplicity from supporting nations, bureaucracy etc..
What happens when the entire system is corrupt? The Judiciary, Police, the Army, the politicians? Everyone is trying to embezzle, selling votes, stuffing ballot boxes, using multiple ledgers, giving their family members jobs, handing out MD's to the rich kids?
Some Billionaire owns the TV Station and is lying about you daily, destroying your ratings. There are protesters outside your door while you're trying to 'plan the buildings'.
The guy who funded your campaign to ascension wants special state-guaranteed contracts.
The rebels in that 'ugly border area' have killed some civilians and the locals want blood.
... and consider that many of the same kinds of constraints exist even in modern countries.
'Building Bridges vs. Schools' is completely pedantic exercise.
They should make the game called 'Saddam' and see how a regular person might fare at that 'job'.