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human
ELI5:Have there been any good Dictatorships in the past? If not, why is the idea of a country ran by a dictator usually condemned? (in other words, why are pretty much all Dictatorships bad?)
gpt
Augustus Caesar and come of the later Roman emperors ran highly effective states (if without much in the way of political freedoms). Dictatorships tend to be bad as a rule because (a) bad rulers can't tolerant dissent, so a bad leader is more likely to move towards dictatorship, (b) most dictators came to power militarily, not through administrative skill, and (c) power tends to corrupt.