Ronnie Jane Devo

Fantastic post Barnard, you sum things up better than I could have hoped to.

As to the globalization issue, I believe it is dangerous by way of creating a monopoly situation. When countries maintain their sovereignty they are kept in a sort of competition with each other whereby one country that maintains a better standard of living can produce or attract citizens who are more talented or productive, leading to greater prosperity for that country, and thus forcing more repressive countries to re-evaluate their political structure lest their international influence dwindle to obscurity.

If all that power is concentrated into a world government, there is relatively little keeping the ruling party/cabal in check, so they have a similar leeway to exploit their constituents that a corporate monopoly has to exploit its consumers.

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