After me,Deluge.Not stupidity, different priorities. They will easily accept an economy crash as long as they are in the top, and the disparity of wealth between them and the others below is big enough. Do you think Mugabe was really unhappy with Zimbabwe's economy being in the shitter? I certainly don't - him and his cronies were on top, fuck the rest.
Well,i could undarstand old leaders doing so,but what about their younger followers? they would live in shit after old guard die.