The Rules for Rulers 

Louis Cho you lost me at "be straight"

Louis Cho I failed step 1

Louis Cho so don't be gay, American or fat

pretty good rules for being a ruler.

Whats a centimeter???

It just goes to show the democracies of today are slipping further away from democracy.

Think of it like of a beekeeper and his bees, or of a farmer and his cattle. Their livelihood depends on their property's productivity, which happens to correlate with the latter's well-being a lot - but that doesn't mean they're friends or equals.

more aligned than dictatorship, but still not enough

Maybe this is why America is getting worse to live in? Automation is making citizens less necessary to production, so our rulers can start to ignore social issues and inequalities again

@@angelcakes5151 So this is how Humans Need Not Apply comes to pass.......in a more dystopian way than we even imagined initially.

lmfao

Hitler is Austrian

Uh oh

Aw sh*t. Here we go again

lmao

Cough putin cough

@@masac2853 Cough, Cough, US Politics.

@@JoelLundqvist98 ok?

@@aturchomicz821 Approval for congress is 20% but reelection rates are around 80-90%. Politicians on both sides (more republicans though) draw congressional districts in ways that will put certain voting blocks into certain districts making it incredibly easy for them to win.

@@JoelLundqvist98 This is because a large number of people believe the presidency is the only vote that matters. They're fools.

Same

Same

The Doc Block LockPickingLawyer would be proud

LOL

LOL damn that's a funny reply

Rule 1, Corollary: if vying for power, over-promise since you will not need everyone later. Isolate key supporters, especially before consolidating power... Be it so that they cannot cooperate to de-thrown you or through facebook groups so that they do not know what you over-promised e.g. pieces from the same budget...

Rule -1: Keep the Army happy

Rule 34: do not search for porn of yourself once you gain power

@@SirNobleIZH 🤣

I thought Rule 0 was keep the army happy

Not just that, but its been true throughout age of time, even right now. Case-in-point, The president of Peru chose the path of Revolt->Fail->To Jail (see 15:40).

👑 of everything 👑

So you got the book the video is based on, right?

@@SuHwak Apparently we lived for thousands of years in a different system that broke these rules and everyone was happy and sustainable. They're not here anymore, of course. Ask any leftist anthropologist and they'll say that without giving any proof or examples.

4)be rectangle

rules for being a ruler 2.0 1) metal, wood, plastic, I dont give a shit 2) metric only, no hamburger eagle gun marks per centimeter 3) be made to measure penis and penis only

you IMBECILE. Stainless steel, cork backed, 18 in rulers are far superior, and can be used to whack people as well as measure things incredibly accurately

*_-5) get broken-_*

If created in Asia: 6) used by parents to lecture their kids

EdgyShooter Ba-nan-a

I think its a nod to the banana republic

Fucking Chiquita

4:38 Your welcome

also to represent a banana republic

Same, view this video when it came out, and it really shaped who i am today

Screw only the US, make the whole world watch this

Reminds me of the ongoing protests in Iran right now.

It is in my top three videos on RU-vid and I can’t think of what the other two are right now. I always think of this one though.

If I could force everyone to watch one, it would be the ranked choice voting one.

What they don't want us to realize is that structures of power, whether hierarchical or not, are artificial. Neither hierarchy nor egalitarianism are natural for humans; they are choices that we can make. When they say we can't escape hierarchies, the truth is that we can't escape them _without demolishing them._

"you can ignore reality, but you never be able to ignore the effects of you ignoring reality"

"Blinding yourself doesn't make the sun go away"

Megamind?

AH YAH

Oh Titan

The cruelty of the old dictator is no more! Now, let a whole new wave of cruelty wash over this lazy land!!!

Gus King. Not lazy, just unable

Rules for rulers: make a set of rules, that's it.

Meanwhile in America: The car is about 8 fridges away from our house.

Enclave Soldier all measurement is arbitrary

@@Number1tnfan683 Someone who gets it

-must be sturdy enough to whack your dying gold mine slaves

Instructive? 😬

The best video i have ever seen on youtube!

Hol nut, rule

The "Golden Rule", he who holds the Gold Rules.

The problem is that what people decide has some power over other, in democracy violenece through the state is validated, so if 90% of people want to make it legal to kill the other 10%, when someone else likes shitty music, or a shitty film or shitty shoes you don't care because they are free to like that and you are not affected by that, democracy is the mass apressing the rest, forcing them to follow their beliefs.

The coconut being the said nation's resources.

So it is written.

Can I be one of your keys? I'm a polisci grad with a knack for electoral strategy and coup-proofing. My services would be quite beneficial to your new regime.

@@brendansunra Absolutely. But before I appoint you, how can I be certain that you won’t topple me if times get rough?

@@bakedbeans2163 Well, if times get tough because you're making bonehead decisions you can't be certain I won't.

@@brendansunra Can I be one of your keys, if BakedBeans screws up?

@@rifz42 Yes, on 3 conditions: 1. Keep this whole "plotting against BakedBeans" thing on the DL 2. Have a relevant skillset for running our empire 3. Be a fan of late 2000s pop

Depending on the country you live in, I don't give hope to any. The army won't just let an anarchist movement spike up, that is not how you make money

Don't get me wrong, I love the quote alone, but spinning it to sound like a warning just gives it that little extra tingle in the spine that really sets you on edge. In my opinion at least. "That throne may look omnipotent from afar, but trust me when I tell you that all is not as it would first appear; you may take the throne to act, but only when it is too late will you realise that it is the throne that has acted upon you."

@@tegan1802 ooh dramatic. this should be in a novel

@@tegan1802 the original is already a clear warning, dense, short and sweet. You make it longer with unnecessary words.

@@LK_tutturu Sure - the extra words are unnecessary to get the point across, but which is more dramatic?

@@tegan1802 certainly the former. If you want, you can just deliver it with dramatic pauses. There are reasons why quotes are so quotable, as I mentioned. It is, however, still a subjective matter.

Spicy pls

Hahaha :D Grey just posted your comment on Twitter! :D

I don't know about all that. Part 1 sounded like a CK2 desmesne management tutorial to me.

I fucking love Tropico

Reminds me I got it on steam for free.

It's a rule not a law.

Like he said, "Even if you have gathered the most loyal, angelic supporters, they have the same problem as you, just one level down." "They too must watch out for rivals from below or above: thus the treasure they get must also be spent to maintain their position."

There is one. Maybe the only one Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. But it comes from pure loyalty from military and people to a war hero . So it is a bit cheating.

@@anatar2518 I don't think it's cheating at all; it is a valid criteria. If becoming a war hero is what it takes to max out your charisma stat then so be it.

Spend enough treasure on the ruled (or simply convince enough of the population that you are) and you can make the ruled unruly if you are deposed. What I think the video gets 'wrong' that even in dictatorships you still need enough support from the populous. To a degree the ruled population is still a key. Guns, armor, fortification, organization and stuff are all force multipliers and a military utterly divorced from the populous is hard to foster even with a caste system, at some point a population willing to potentially die for freedom can overcome a military. JC got stabbed to death because (and other reasons) he was trying to use this fact to get around needing the keys of the senate.

I assume there was a second coup?

@@Flamme-Sanabi and you are 100% right :) I made a couple of mistakes in managing all relationships and I was a bit too arrogant without even caring about my "keys"... so, basically I kept the official status and role but in fact there was a silent "don't do anything he says and try to harm him if possible" mood in my group in the last year of our education, basically, I lost all allies and reputation and ended up just having a role, some privileges and doing my business

@@wisemoldsthoughts2119 that's too bad, better luck next time, though try to follow the given rules of this video a bit closer.

@@ShiningTitan ur not a chad...

@@ShiningTitan ah great. Someone comparing one jackass dying to the hundreds of unarmed people shot by police for peacefully marching.

So, what happened now? I dont watch news very often.

@@maximocaseres2526 Probably in reference to the capitol building thing that happened in the states at the start of the year.

I think he meant that the people storming a palace and succeeding only happens if the soldiers let them.

power is eternal, therefore, stuff explaining about power is also eternal.

Wait this was 4 years ago

@@murilo2330 Well put.

I agree

I mean really can this ever go irrelevant? Please?

Yes

ESPECIALLY the ending bit "Better you on the throne than someone else...Then maybe you'll be different *fades into literal obscurity*." it seems so much like something out of a book or something

@@tlhm7102 You forgot the "ruler's hat morphs into dictator's hat"

Or rather, his son, as in the case of Prince Souphanouvong

@@tlhm7102 that's why we love grey, he can be so ominous and mysterious at times

Definitely feels like a story, as others have suggested maybe a king to his son, a dictator to his child, the glorious leader to his son.

I am gonna probably use these rules in making my novel.

STUV101 I do the exact same

STUV101 why did I not think of this, thanks man.

solid!!

Killer idea. I'll have to try it out. Cheers.

Yes. After years of political science classes, and watching this for like the tenth time, I still find myself astonished with the clarity of the analysis.

Time to clean my alps switches

Pretty much shows how the world works.

Indeed!

I still come back to this, and has really altered my perception about the problems in government and how insurmountable some of them are.

You can always make this a presentation.

@@alzhanvoidsansado that's a genius idea. Maybe I'll get an opportunity,but I'm on my last months of senior year so I don't know.

over here we had discussions like these in high school politics classes dont know why they wouldnt do so in other places. Sometimes even done in a class roleplay scenario where we chose our dictator and leaders etc. even in History classes. maybe i just got lucky with teachers who knows.

I actually did watch this video in one of my classes

@@ti2218 same. I really wish they showed this to everyone, including me in my earlier schooling years.

But remember, democracy’s are still a for-profit business and therefore education and community are a danger to it. Proper US history and education on its structure are not a part of curriculum for a reason.

A it was totally a coup when they didn’t try to hold it or make demands.

@@DrOfficedog Doesn't matter what it was, they're terrorists either way.

@@bradenallen1241 they’re only terrorists because they entered government property/Support the President. In the 60s an armed radical terrorist group stormed the capital, made demands and nothing happened to them. Those terrorists were Black Panthers.

V for vendetta: Yep ima write that down

@@DrOfficedog what day was that? I'll look that up in my history books oh wait it's a lie.

Makes you think, doesn't it?

Open to question, but it is a fair point... :/

That's not even remotely true at all.

+benblue3 You're right, there are non-corrupt politicians. They just don't stick around for very long because of the points presented here.

benblue3 what's not remotely true?

Sixteen times the power....it just works

I mean yeah why would you need to pay your keys if you can just kill them every week and focus on your people You complain? You dont like the money i give you? You demand more money or you overthrown me? Alright then *gun bullet sound*

But if he killed them on a regular basis to be replaced wouldn’t the people who would become keys eventually catch on and stop trying to become the keys?

@@kramarancko1107 but the keys were living better lives than the peasants. Rather live better for a week than die a sad death after ur sad life. Also they were gambling on the chances that they would survive.

If they remain loyal, they're safe. Many Stalin's subordinates worked with him for a very long time, some during all his rule even.

Adolf and Pinochet's worst crime was being different

@@TrollSlayerLogan xd

@@TrollSlayerLogan I'd rather say the holocaust and throwing people out of helicopters were their crimes mate

@@TrollSlayerLogan In the bombings of dresden didn't die serbs. How could these bombings kill 17 Millions? God, you will never be part of our society. Come to germany and we show you what we think of Nazis like you, you won't last a second

@@Karl_der_Genosse Is it the same Germany under Merkel? Place looks more divided than Bosnia

Do elaborate. I am deeply curious now.

We ned a full story. This sounds interesting.

This really sounds interesting

School Dictator.

I must say, congratulations

The two aren't opposites, it can be honest and dark at the same time

Being honest is dark, we live in a society

@@HeidenLam Go I'm so sick of this society around me.

@Je720 Republics fail because the people become lazy.

It isn't the whole truth. It's being relentlessly cynical for the sake of crafting a simple theoretical model, but it isn't backed up by a large chunk of history. The transition from dictatorships to democracies, for example.

It's almost as if Machiavelli understood these principles. Admittedly, in a different time to our but the basic principles of power remain the same.

Watch some other videoes on the mind and all that stuff will start showing you that... Maybe, it's just our brains doing most of the work. We're making a nice story up for the flashing of stick figures coming and going one by one.

same

When you have 2k likes and 3 comments....

Check out Historia civilis. You'll marvel at how you come to care for a collection of squares and boxes.

ever heard of Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker?

CGP Grey: *gets promoted under them* Just as planned.....

@@Hell_O7 you see this goes against the cgp video . They might hepl them take power but are no longer necessary so no reward and they go to gulag beacuse they are no longer useful to the dictator

@@muhammedmansoor3406 This is just a preview of a full online dictator course.

This is probably the Key he will remove.

I would like to thank CGP Grey for teaching me how to win power.

then: 1. Measure in bananas

Top meme m9

WHY ISN'T THIS TOP COMMENT!!!!!1!!111!11!!!!!!!

Beautiful!

Discriminating against wooden and metal rulers :(

It lead me on the rabbit hole to pursue magic.

Rule infinity.... With great power comes the great responsibility

@@Deepak-cu1mr Facts.

Rule 34: don't ask

@@Deepak-cu1mr with great power comes a great power bill

EL Presidente 101

Nah man its CK2

The video made me think of the game a lot actually

Its TheoTown.

Where is my island!!!!

It won't ever not be

Ah a fellow Celeste fan. You're a woman of culture Especially if you watch videos like this

maddy pfp huh? 194 golden strawbs here, how about you

until the end of humanity

It's scary how many people now a days don't realize this is how governments works. People always think that governments have the peoples bests interest in mind until they are well bad off that they can't ignore it.

Yep, it's amazing :)

Hillary, is that you? ;)

@AJ Kelly dude you have a lot to learn about reading comprehension since I was agreeing with you.

Cough cough voter ID laws cough cough

Good luck

@AJ Kelly nothing like some casual anti-Semitism in RU-vid comments amirite?

rofwl :-D

HistoryBuff97 hahaha

This makes me... Happy: Beutiful Meme Bro. Sad: I miss Billy...

This video would have been better if he was shouting at me the whole time instead of talking monotone.

shutup and take my money

I think that even when cloning, the clones would think *they* should rule, and not the other clones. I think the worst mistake a power-hungry dictator could make is clone himself. Then there would be a multitude of power-hungry dictators instead of willing subordinates.

Maybe more something like "shadow doubles" who are aware that they are doubles and will dissapear if the original wishes so, that way they must follow their order.

Rick and Morty did that.

Horatio

If the clones are not individual people that is. They still need to eat, drink, procreate and sleep.

+Victor Mapping + Top chicken 2016

We're top chicken *put glasses on*

But those would end up being Medium chickens. Right?

vape

topkek

Are you referring to Russia as a democracy?

@@8panthermodern2 It is. It's not a flawless one, in fact it is pretty corrupt, but it is a democracy. Regional leaders are actually elected, and i suspect that there is actually a lot of support for the current ruling party among the people, considering they've pulled the country out of a horrible crisis back in the day.

Hate to break it to you, but you're under a dictatorship, not a democracy.

@i hate anime I guess you don't know what a dictatorship is

@i hate anime if you think that you can easily say that we all live under a democracy

I actually agree that it should be mandatory in the us. Vote or be fined 1% of your income (or 100 USD), whichever is greater. Throw your vote away by voting for a third party or put in the write in part "I am doing this under duress" and just do your damn civic duty. Also all businesses have to give people time to go vote. Write in ballets is acceptable.

Ah yes, lets take notes from a prison colony :D You literally live in a dictatorship.

Doesn't work in practice. Mandatory voting is populist and corruption fodder. Poor ignorant people who normally wouldn't vote vote and get their vote purchased by some corrupt guy, or are brainwashed by a populist. Also happens in Brazil. In some places its still common for politicians to literally give people fuel, or farm animals, or whatever for their vote, often having entire networks of people to do this in a large scale.

Better to have varied biases in the privatized media than have a singular, government-controlled bias (see: Russia, China, etc).

Cyka blyat comrade full-out dictators had extra support from glorious union middling dictators could get the cheaper lower quality surplus from WWII *sorry im trying to be a trashy tankie or something*

Haha, the 'middling dictator' may be a cheapskate.

@@Cybernaut551 that's why he's a middling dictator

He said he didn't want to spill Brazilian blood. It likely would have succeeded quickly.

All I hear in your comment is that they successfully ruled for a long time before they were deposed. I think it's that, and other examples, that water down what this video is teaching to an extent. You can rule, and you can make great benevolent change. It means you won't rule forever, but is that actually what you want? If you simply want to enact particular change, enact it, and retire.

@@usetheexplosives But when you leave, what's to stop the next from changing it back? You have to rule for long enough for your citizens to get used to the change, where its absence will be noticed enough to risk great protest/revolution. If you enact a change and leave before it settles, the next ruler won't have any trouble modifying it to fit his needs. And until then... well, you have to survive somehow right? Keep your keys happy.

@@usetheexplosives You're right that the rules for these are to stay in power, but remember a coup means the keys were promised more. And since the vault hasn't increased, the treasure which was being spent on the citizens is now going to go to the keys. Hence, even when you make positive change, it's going to suffer if you're overthrown by someone via a coup (since a dictator has less keys)

Sim mano, aí foi ladeira à baixo

oh yeah, that coop. I gave them like 10 bucks

I always get a little chill at that part

And the cycle continues.

One of my favorite moments in the video

@@jeremyjackson8862 Right,because every revolunionary says that to themselves. Remember when Lenin wanted to be better than those "capitalist pigs" but ended up creating the TROPE CODIFIER for dictatorships?

They don't have to like you, they just have to like you better than the alternative

Every 4 years when the US has another election I see this. Funny to watch from over here that no one is fighting for alternatives, just more of the same

As a Canadian this very much hurts

Explain plz

That's just the raw, unfiltered, reality.

We can't do anything about the core problem of power but we can make the situation a little better. Democracy made things better in comparison so we should do more of that. The reason we're even talking about money being the biggest issue at this point and not something like bloodlines shows where the problem is right now. The problem is that our economy which holds an insane amount of power over us is (outside of regulations) completely undemocratic. I mean when it comes to the economy we basically operate on a system where we tell the dictators they can't do the bad stuff because it's illegal and we don't like it. If you want to get a better idea on how to make a government you should probably look into the anarchist stuff. You can't make everyone a saint but you can't take away their power and insenitive to do bad things.

Carlos Rios Military Industrial Complex, always worth learning about.

that's the main rule - have the power

The army is merely another Key supporter. A very important one, sure, but nothing more.

abschussrampe no, it is the key key supporter

can't pay the army without the bureaucrats

Because there will always be an asshole who wants money for himself and not the greater good. Someone who value individual over society. Kinda like anti-masks "i dont care if i kill people by not wearing a mask, MY comfort is more important than THEIR lives ! "

@@kolkoki *pinochet noises*

@@alfredorotondo I am sorry as i do not know enough about him to understand what you are meaning

@@kolkoki As you are reading this comment, you are inhaling god only knows how many different viruses, bacteria, germs, infections, and god knows what else. Perhaps you are even inhaling Covid-19 right this very second. While most of these are fairly harmless and in certain cases even beneficial, your body is under attack 24/7. The only way for you to stop these attacks outright is to live in a completely sealed and scrubbed environment. The masks being forced on everyone at large to 'protect the citizens' don't even qualify as such. Biological sciences have proven that your immune system is very much like your muscles. If you fail to exercise them properly and also allow them adequate rest at times, they will fail you. The consequence of such failure of an immune system is your death. Living in a 'clean' environment is just as deadly as living in filth. If you live in filth, your immune system is overtaxed and cannot keep up. If you live in a 'clean' environment, your immune system will atrophy and when the time comes, it will fail you. Masks do nothing to help this process. At most they will help contain/prevent the spread depending on the state of the person on them. To a healthy person, they will contain nothing and they will prevent the immune system from learning how to fight an infection. Masks kill healthy populations. However the result is far different for those who are at-risk as it prevents a full on outbreak that a weakened immune system can't handle right away and contains those who ARE sick. Your best defense against disease is your own build in biological defenses. If that fails, medicines are designed to bolster or otherwise assist this process until your body can adapt. Those that fail die. That's life. You can't save everyone. We are well beyond the point where masks do anybody good and it's time to let biology take over. Help those who are at-risk but at this point, it's up to those murder death machines the White Blood Cells.

@@graveyardshift6691 I've got something you can breathe, asshole.

Which book ?

@@pepperpoop7729 In the video description "The Dictators Handbook"

Well better you on the throne than someone else

Companies are still productive automated or not, and they still need the citizens to buy their products. If the citizens still have power (money) being productive in other areas, they still fuel democracy.

Anarchism.

By that time citizens are nolonger citizens anymore, we are about going enter a world exactly like cyber-punk2077. Try join those big tech Corps, or killed by gangsters and die on the streets.

Well, then, common citizens get to live their lives without the looming anxieties of needing to subject yourself to long work weeks because you feel you aren't doing enough. (It really is not as healthy as you think it is.) Maybe developing hobbies, they can then develop into a career they actually enjoy, they can potentially earn money from. People aren't lazy, they just don't want to work for big bad corporations. And everything else such as making products will probably be taking care of by automation.

Long Live the Tsar!!!

oopsieee

hey bro nice pfp

Actually taking power is easier than keeping power

Now bombrush Europe

@Matthew Morycinski you cannot use the word compromise in Dictatorship system.

@@woofiegoofie tell that to Beria

@@wtfbros5110 At first I don't know him but ugh he's awful.

@@woofiegoofieyeah he's almost as bad as Himmler, which is ironic since he wants detente with the west and a united neutral germany

It get's worse. What happens when human labor is made obsolete by AI and robots? The elites purge the plebs to protect their position of power in accrodence with the second law.

*laughs in communism*

*laughs in clinton*

@@ibuilder1175 NO!! DONT DO THAT!!! YOUR GONNA START AN ARGUMENT!

@@macaroon_nuggets8008 I had to do it

Isaac Roland *laughs in parenthood*

He didn't say that, but it's better not to see quote attributions being made.

Fuchsia 'tude Who didn't what?

say that thing POSQ said he did

Fuchsia 'tude Good to see you giving legitimate backing for what you say. However, while the quote did not originate with Bismarck, that does not mean he never said it. It is entirely plausible that Bismarck used an obscure older quote, and people who had never heard it before just assumed he said it first. You should probably edit your original comment.

PhysiOSQuantum I

that was a great series! I watched it a few times!

Didn't even catch that...

And winks.

ikr? looking for this comment

and also the music turns from a major into a minor key. great catch

Because everyone always says, "when I'm in charge, I'll be different!" When in reality you'll be just as corrupt and amoral as every ruler before you. There are very few exceptions in history.

El Salvador

maybe it's "banana money" because it comes from bananas?

All leaders use Bitcoin. Its just facts. This whole video is facts

Where do you live big fella

egypt im guessing?

Egypt yeah

things getting better?

@@antonyandrewson5803 apparently not :(

Monaco joined the chat

😂😂😂

Taxes are not constant. They're not a guarantee if we realize the illegitimacy of them and the opportunity of voluntary cooperation.

Taxes exist only so long as people, death as long as there is life

@@TheSkullConfernece voluntary cooperation... Among humans... So, never right?