if you can take the world we share and unilaterally cause great trenches to be dug and trains to be made and homes to be moved, yeah, you are a dictator. 1/

maybe we can have a system where deployment of great wealth is regulated by an active democratic state, so such deployments only occur with some version of approval of the public, in which case it's less accurately characterized as dictatorial. 2/

but to the degree great wealth itself controls or corrupts the form of a democratic state, expenditure becomes a means of dictatorial action, absolutely. /fin