Paraphrasing: what is a hot dog but meat in an intestant. When you consume a hot dog, you do not eat the hot dog, you become the hot dog.

Closer to none than some, I would assume.

Personally, I bet as i hope things won’t go because if it goes bad, at least I get some cash. Hedge. I can’t be alone in this.

You can want all you want but if 5 percent growth annually is the best, you are the only game in town.

At least it would help if you didn’t oscillate between the two. Less evil, more evil, less evil, more evil. Pick less evil each time!

And when they are no longer wise?

Despot means you have absolute power. It doesn’t mean you use it badly. It just means you have the potential to.

Sometimes. And when they dont, there is no one to stop them. It’s the age old problem of a wise despot. Just dressed in different clothes.