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This is so true. The country I live in has about the same number of inhabitants as NYC. Today I read an article in a business magazine local to this country say
by sebcat 14y ago
This is so true. The country I live in has about the same number of inhabitants as NYC. Today I read an article in a business magazine local to this country saying something like "we [as a country] need to be able to compete with the world".
I mean, if we're supposed to compete with the bio mass of India or China, we're gonna have a bad time...
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoI live in a country with a similarly small population and much smaller land-area. Just because nation-states aren't the forefront of the most interesting stuff going on in the world today doesn't mean they don't perform a necessary function. The psychological problem with a functioning, well-done nation-state is that it fades into the background, and people just suddenly act surprised when they wake up one day after voting for neoliberals and find they've lost their rent subsidies, their child allowance, and half the coverage on their health insurance.