Dictators and their population

Typically, dictator (emperor) type behaviour and desires prevail when the broader population of the nation/empire are lowly educated and often poor.

Then comes the promise of equality to those many. That’s why socialism works for those many.

While an emperor convinces one part of the population, many others are indeed educated and wealthy.

And so, then the campaign begins to invite and convince the educated and wealthy to join the emperor’s cause and ideals, so that they a) are allowed to retain what they already have (see confiscation) and 2) gain a little more under the new and improved way of doing things.

But those poor and uneducated will all collectively pay for everything (including using a public bathroom) just for the privilege of (and giving thanks to) equality or perhaps just a loaf of bread and a quart of milk.