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Doesn't really work when the nepotism is hereditary aristocratic seats, because the asshole Lord has a son to smoothly become a new asshole Lord. You mean one of the major driving forces behind Roman logistics that let them create the idea of Europe as an overall cultural entity in the first...

This is an Overton Window problem, and a lot of it stems from pinning most of the voterbase idiot-proofing on the suffrage whitelist instead of using a blacklist defining the character faults not to be trusted with the vote. Took quite some time to get Congressmen voting themselves higher...

They feed very directly back into eachother, with the political progress getting nepotistic graft out of the way of or in line with actually using the technology. The before-and-after of the French revolution had systematic improvements the monarchies it ran over would never have tolerated, such...

To your specific ethical standards that largely start from the premise that what they overthrew was right. In shit we've been able to measure, it had been an upward trend until the 1980s. More security of needs, more access to luxuries, less disease, less infant mortality, across the board...

Took like 400 years for Christianity to stop being this, and it came back to it with some of the crusades. Unless you think flagellants and martyr-baiting were never a thing. Also riots that took a Roman Emperor locking early leaders in a room and exiling the guy who refused to drop the...