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When will countries finally understand that it's better to co-operate them too compete against another? Multinational companies are playing them against each ot
by macco 8y ago
When will countries finally understand that it's better to co-operate them too compete against another? Multinational companies are playing them against each other.
- Narkov 8y agoYou are right but it will never happen. It only takes one country to break ranks and the game is back on again.
- toyg 8y agoI wouldn't be so pessimistic. This was happening in XVIII and XIX century Europe too, which was much more divided politically. Thanks to the industrial revolution, businesses went from town-size to country-size. In reaction, nations coagulated around larger cores. Similarly, when businesses played national region versus national region, workers' right movements were forced to scale up to respond. In many ways, the emergence of the EU was forced by the rise of supranationally-sized industrial giants emerging from US and URSS. Now that it's clear that "supranational champions" really have no fundamental loyalty, there is a very high chance that supranational institutions will become more and more powerful. The challenge is to make those institutions answer to everyone rather than just to the elites.
- IAmEveryone 8y agoSeems like this very article is about this practice ending?
- danmaz74 8y agoThe thing is, if you're a small enough country that can tax - at a lower rate - revenues/profits generated in other bigger countries, then for you it's better to be able to compete. As long as the bigger countries allow that, that is.
- soneil 8y agoA quote I noticed in fortune(1) today: "The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes." Seems particularly apt in this context.