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Re:SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 st... by sneak on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:04PM (#25338268)
> folks can choose where to live.

This is absolutely not true in practice, even for rich people fortunate/lucky enough to be born in a place where they receive a passport with lots of options.

For the 99% of the other humans, it's even worse.

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Re:SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 st... by pharke on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:29PM (#25338590)
That doesn't appear to be a defect inherent to nations since there seems to be a pretty even split between free and non-free nations[0] Rather, it seems to be a problem of bad governance, corruption, ineffective or non-existent institutions, etc. My reason for favouring a world with many nations is that failures of those varieties are generally limited by the borders of the nations in which they occur. A world with a single governing body is a world with a single point of failure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices#:~:tex....

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