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you can have an economic community without the political aspect of it

• hgomersall 2y ago
  What does that look like? Let's say you have a large exporting country that decides its exporting needs are more important than the employment needs of other countries in the block, how do you handle that without political alignment? Economic community is political community. The only question is what flavour of economic community, which IMO is where the EU has gone well off track.
• ako 2y ago
  Unfortunately, these days economic community is not enough. With the US slowly falling apart due to internal polarization, rusia and china trying to grap as much power as they can, Middle East far from stable, and the disrupting impact of climate change, focusing only on the economy ignores our biggest problems.
  • t0bia_s 2y ago
    If you put ideology on first place, competition will crush you easily. China don't care about environment and they make high fortune on it, like other countries did previously. What frustrate me most is how EU sponsor their business from our taxes in name of care about environment. Ie grants on photovoltaic panels that are made from 95% in China or donated EV's that ruin traditional car manufacturing in EU.
    • 76SlashDolphin 2y ago
      China will (and does to a certain extent) care about the environment because they know it will eventually be a massive problem for them. Their single-party state has only managed to stay in power because it's been very good at driving up the standards of living. And you can only pollute so much before those standards stop going up and people start to get displeased, which is why they've been trying so hard to move up the value chain and export their pollution to other countries (via cheap loans).
      • t0bia_s 2y ago
        Which doesn't change anything I wrote above. Pollution is made and driven by centrally planed economics from our taxes.