Comment by jandrese
5 hours ago
Sudden power vacuums are often filled by the most opportunistic individuals in human culture. People who are frequently more concerned with personal gain over the collective well-being of the group. It's why assassinating heads of state usually just makes the situation worse.
Plenty of people stepped into power vacuums not to make themselves rich but to save their nation Napolean, Tito, Cincinnatus, arguably George Washington.
Right but this is rare enough for "power vacuums" to generally be regarded as a bad thing and not a good thing.
If they frequently had great people step in, we'd just produce them artificially all the time.