Re:Britain’s Productivity Decline Is the Worst in 250 Years
by barrkel on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:36AM
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Funny how that worked out for Ireland, right? How we were able to enforce our will on the UK?
The sovereignty axe swings both ways.
More independence gives you more degrees of freedom but less power. More unity gives you more power where you're aligned. To maximize effectiveness, in a purely selfish way, it makes sense to sacrifice degrees of freedom for more power if you're not particularly interested in those degrees of freedom to begin with.
The only ways Brexit makes sense are as sacrificing power absolutely (the North Korea Juche approach), or changing the degrees of freedom being exercised (giving up on the Western European social model).
The sovereignty axe swings both ways.
More independence gives you more degrees of freedom but less power. More unity gives you more power where you're aligned. To maximize effectiveness, in a purely selfish way, it makes sense to sacrifice degrees of freedom for more power if you're not particularly interested in those degrees of freedom to begin with.
The only ways Brexit makes sense are as sacrificing power absolutely (the North Korea Juche approach), or changing the degrees of freedom being exercised (giving up on the Western European social model).