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> Well, if it were reasonably run, why not? Imagine a world where the trillions going into the military were spent in other ways? Where people weren’t arbitrage
by throw_m239339 7y ago
> Well, if it were reasonably run, why not? Imagine a world where the trillions going into the military were spent in other ways? Where people weren’t arbitraged across artificial boundaries? Would that be so horrible? So much more terrible than what we have now?
These trillions would be spent oppressing you for a change. A "world government" cannot be anything but a complete bloody dictatorship.
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- neuro_image3 7y agoThe libertarian propaganda runs deep in the west.
- Retric 7y agoRejecting the premise does not invalidate the argument. It’s at least possible for a world government to be reasonably run.
- thu2111 7y agoWhere's the evidence? This thread is decrying the response of one of the world's largest governments. Good thing the rest of the world doesn't depend on the US CDC or we'd all have a big problem. One world government doesn't look like some utopian committee of experts making perfect decisions each time. It looks like Trump and Xi but multiplied by a million.
- Retric 7y agoI am not saying it would generally be a good idea. Obviously it could be a terrible thing. However, considering the best possible option out of all possible futures as a theoretical exercise it would look like something else.