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 l

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.