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World government makes sense so that coverage of responsibility would be extended over all common areas such as air and oceans. With decentralised govt there is

World government makes sense so that coverage of responsibility would be extended over all common areas such as air and oceans. With decentralised govt there is no owner of oceans, it's a common pasture, so nobody prevents certain countries from hunting down all the whales until extinction and poor countries making ocean a dumpster for plastics that rich green countries recycled their plastics to. However, world government doesn't make sense before more planets are settled, because no governent model is perfect yet and the best model we have so far is a competition between states as to which model should prevail. Eg., you are a monarchy and your next king is a moron. Too bad, having democracy would have made this only temporary. You are a democracy and your country's media run by oligarchs found a way to rule by influencing masses. Too bad, if you had a king, he would imprison the oligarchs. There will be cycles in model of government in foreseeable future, so it is premature to decide on the one government style yet, so it is dangerous to do one and only world govt yet. Wait for Musk to colonize Mars at least.

jokethrowaway 4y ago
My government (in Europe) has been increasingly worse in the last 30 years (at least). That's just as bad as a monarchy if not worst. At least the monarchy takes drastic decisions (some good, some bad) but has all the power so they'll be held responsible. Kings still risk being executed or assassinated. Our governments keep saying they can't do anything because of the system and just keep pushing out laws that make life marginally worse for everyone over decades. Nobody even remembers politicians' name: they collectively risk way less than monarchs (who actually wield power, not expensive and useless stamp models, overpaid by the taxpayers, like the Queen of England)

jokethrowaway 4y ago

My government (in Europe) has been increasingly worse in the last 30 years (at least). That's just as bad as a monarchy if not worst. At least the monarchy takes drastic decisions (some good, some bad) but has all the power so they'll be held responsible. Kings still risk being executed or assassinated. Our governments keep saying they can't do anything because of the system and just keep pushing out laws that make life marginally worse for everyone over decades. Nobody even remembers politicians' name: they collectively risk way less than monarchs (who actually wield power, not expensive and useless stamp models, overpaid by the taxpayers, like the Queen of England)