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Re:Populism and the Economics of Globalization [pdf] by anigbrowl on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:29PM (#14607090)
Precisely why I'm for it. I'm not in favor of replacing national with corporate sovereignty, though, or rather I'm in favor of putting limits on concentrations of sovereignty. Nationalism is a Bad Thing in my view.
Re:Populism and the Economics of Globalization [pdf] by msimpson on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @07:59PM (#14609082)
> Nationalism is a Bad Thing in my view.

First of all, nationalism is not national sovereignty.

The former is a social construct which an individual embraces while the latter is a principal of law which a group embraces.

The former is hardly useful, but the latter is vital to all existing nations. No nation is going to willingly give up its right to self governance.

> I'm in favor of putting limits on concentrations of sovereignty.

So, essentially, you wish to live in a world without borders where one or more unions govern many places regardless of geographical separation?

Because that worked out so well in the past...

Re:Populism and the Economics of Globalization [pdf] by anigbrowl on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:40PM (#14609267)
Essentially, yes I do and I'm fully aware of the operational and philosophical difficulties of such an undertaking. I have ideas about how to implement a distributed governance approach without falling back into patterns of autocratic central control, but am still working on how to make those robust against attempts at hijacking and so forth.