Autocracies think in a command way: if a solution is deployed and some people are unhappy, those people need to align because it is state policy. In a democracy, if it doesn’t fit, we figure out a fork —like privacy‑preserving contact tracing—that makes people happier. Ideally, everybody is slightly happier than before and nobody very unhappy . Autocracy aims to make the holders of power very happy; if some are very unhappy, that’s their fate.