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> There is a penn and teller episode where they argued that globalization was creating world peace. This is something that worries me about covid supply chain
by dehrmann 4y ago
> There is a penn and teller episode where they argued that globalization was creating world peace.
This is something that worries me about covid supply chain onshoring.
> Their model, I think, only works for democracies.
It's kept China in-line, but it's also made North Korea a pariah state.
The other lesson we recently got in world peace is countries with nukes can do what they want to countries without nukes. Could be the US and Iraq or Russia and Ukraine.
- barbariangrunge 4y ago> countries with nukes can do what they want Tragedy of the commons: to save the world, we need to get rid of all the nukes. But unless you have nukes, you are helpless against everyone around you, so everyone has to get nukes (or a trustworthy ally who has them)