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.

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cucumber3732842 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Plenty of people stepped into power vacuums not to make themselves rich but to save their nation Napolean, Tito, Cincinnatus, arguably George Washington.

	▲	estearum 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.