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How do they scale? Workable solutions need to allow seven billion people to inter-operate.

• xorcist 11y ago
  No known system scales to seven billion people. (Just try to calculate what it would mean for every family in the world to buy a car.) Why would you think that a political or economical system needs to be globally scalable to be useful? Or that it would even be desirable? It would be reasonable to believe that a family, a business or a city should not be governed in the same way a country or a planet is.
  • fixermark 11y ago
    It's clear that it's not necessary for a system to scale globally to be useful. But a political system that scales globally is definitely desirable; an awful lot of human suffering is directly traceable to sub-optimal decisions made internationally because "those people" aren't "our people." There are big wins to be had for solving that problem.