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[The Hunger Games] Were the games even worth it?

You are the Capitol. You have just won a prolonged and devastating conflict. You institute an annual tradition of taking one young boy and one young girl selected by lottery to fight to the death on live television. The winner gets eternal glory, blah blah blah.

But I don't get how anyone expected it to be sustainable in the long term. Every year, another person who might hate you *an awful lot* comes into the public eye and gets tons of attention every single year after that. Worse, they get to mentor all the tributes from their district for the rest of their lives.

In what ways does this system not lead to a critical mass of influential people with the motives and connections to topple your government?
gpt
You pretty much have to work under the tyrannical mindset to make sense of this.  The thought process is along the lines of being so powerful in your own mind that even a puny peasant uprising won't make a difference.  Giving the underlings a lightning rod in the form of surviving tributes won't actually make a difference because you believe you're unbeatable.  You can always use fear and coercion on the survivors if they start to get uppity and threaten to revoke their status, their benefits, or their life.

It's not a logically viable system, but dystopian rulerships usually aren't.