If you want power, to exercise political power, you need to work really hard. It is not easy. You probably cannot do anything else in life.
Our current dictator joined a political party as a young man, and went through the ranks, working hard for the party. Every day he acted in the best interest of the party and its leadership; he climbed the ropes. He worked tirelessly toward the party's goal of winning votes, and he was waiting for his moment, sacrificing sleep, health, relationships. All for the party and power. At some point money became more important, because people around him depended on his success.
The state - the whole state! - depended on his success, he came to believe.
Mafia methods worked well. A square meter of a newly built apartment building became a stable currency. Money started coming in freely: he figured it out.
Anyone can launder money now by buying an apartment in the capital. The party coffers are filling up through the party's control of construction projects. That money comes in handy before elections.
Our dictator hasn't had a job outside politics since his 20s. He needs to stay in power and keep winning elections, so that the money continues to come in. He also needs to keep bullying, threatening, and demonizing any form of critical journalism, because he knows that free press is bad news (his mother and his first wife were journalists).
It is all about money at this stage, because he'll lose support unless he keeps generating cash.
People on the outside watching your success should understand how difficult it is to be you. But, we can't. We should help you and reward your hard work, but you're a dictator. You worked for a dictator and you were always going to become one. Money has to keep coming, because you have pissed off so many people on your way to dictatorship. How many valves can be shut?
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