What is the ROI argument against royal spending?
It compares monarchy's budget to its measurable output. Palaces, security details and hereditary allowances produce prestige and tourism revenue but no scalable return, whereas the same capital redirected into infrastructure or healthcare compounds — a comparison an optimizer would treat as decisive.
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Why AI Would Delete Royal Families, and What It Would Build InsteadA thought experiment: how a pure optimizer would score hereditary monarchy as a bug, and the meritocratic council it would ship instead.
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