If you have a lot of power, then gambling on a chance at dictatorship (say, proportional to your power) could be worth it and incentivized, and I think it’s important to be realistic about that to understand how the world could unfold. But there are a lot of other downsides to it, like wasteful races and the chance of being cut out of the pie as punishment for your societal defection, which do favour more democratic approaches.
If you have a lot of power, then gambling on a chance at dictatorship (say, proportional to your power) could be worth it and incentivized, and I think it’s important to be realistic about that to understand how the world could unfold. But there are a lot of other downsides to it, like wasteful races and the chance of being cut out of the pie as punishment for your societal defection, which do favour more democratic approaches.