They're certainly "better" incentives if you are the one getting the inheritence.
As for everyone else, there is no incentive to make your life better. They don't have to answer to the people.
I think we can agree on the timescales for dictators vs democratically elected folks (especially those with term limits). We can lament that together.
But I do not believe monarchs have incentives which are more aligned with the average person. They might _choose_ to do right by the commoner, but the only incentive is to not make people's lives so untolerable that you get overthrown.
Change my mind.
Dr. Hax
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