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#11
Jun 30 2020 03:56pm
heres wikipedias definition:
"Anarchy is the state of a society being freely constituted without authorities or a governing body. It may also refer to a society or group of people that totally rejects a set hierarchy." such as a one world government.
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Jun 30 2020 03:57pm
Quote (EndlessSky @ Jun 30 2020 02:52pm)
That isnt quite the same as anarchy. Our freedoms are quite limited.


yes but freedom is a spectrum.
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Jun 30 2020 04:28pm
Wow, long time no see!
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Jun 30 2020 04:30pm
I live under a rock and some dirt.
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Jun 30 2020 04:33pm
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Wow, long time no see!


sup man! yea some old faces in here still lurkin!
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#16
Jun 30 2020 05:43pm
Quote (Grippster @ Jun 30 2020 01:56pm)
what about the efficacy of international corporations?


Their ubiquity seems to remove the need to have a nation state for protections since firms can do business all over the world super easily. They are becoming hyper efficient and using what works, taking whatever works from wherever in the world, and narrowing everything.

It's like No. 1 said in Austin Powers -- "what you don't understand is there is no 'world' anymore! Just corporations!"
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Jun 30 2020 05:51pm
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Their ubiquity seems to remove the need to have a nation state for protections since firms can do business all over the world super easily. They are becoming hyper efficient and using what works, taking whatever works from wherever in the world, and narrowing everything.

It's like No. 1 said in Austin Powers -- "what you don't understand is there is no 'world' anymore! Just corporations!"


Its a complicated subject. I dont know of any corporations that are decentralized enough physically to be independent of nation states. also Supply chains are pretty fragile so it could be argued most corporations are beholden to the U.S. to police the world. if one is cynical then it could be argued that the US is beholden to corporations. Either way, geopolitics are important to corporate strategy.

it would be interesting trying to create an antifragile multinational that was agnostic to geopolitics and see what that would look like.
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Jun 30 2020 05:57pm
Quote (Grippster @ Jun 30 2020 04:51pm)
Its a complicated subject. I dont know of any corporations that are decentralized enough physically to be independent of nation states. also Supply chains are pretty fragile so it could be argued most corporations are beholden to the U.S. to police the world. if one is cynical then it could be argued that the US is beholden to corporations. Either way, geopolitics are important to corporate strategy.

it would be interesting trying to create an antifragile multinational that was agnostic to geopolitics and see what that would look like.


It is super complicated, you're right, just look at the shift in things today versus the 1980's. It is pretty difficult to impossible to imagine what it'll look like in 100 years and I sure as Hell don't pretend to have a quality guess as to what it's like.

It does seem like eventually physical currency will be eliminated, which is another devastating blow to the necessity for a nation state.

Who knows though? Maybe there will be some major crash and we will go to a Mad Max style of living where a few physical commodities are all that really matter and states matter again.
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Jun 30 2020 05:57pm
Quote (Kamahl16 @ Jun 30 2020 06:43pm)
Their ubiquity seems to remove the need to have a nation state for protections since firms can do business all over the world super easily. They are becoming hyper efficient and using what works, taking whatever works from wherever in the world, and narrowing everything.

It's like No. 1 said in Austin Powers -- "what you don't understand is there is no 'world' anymore! Just corporations!"


This is something I wish conspiracy theorists could understand. There isn't some massive conspiracy to make us all disbelieve in a flat earth, or reject Jesus, or install evil overlords. It's billionaires influencing the world to make money. Very bland compared to the epic battle of good versus evil they wish the world was.
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Jun 30 2020 06:00pm
Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 30 2020 04:57pm)
This is something I wish conspiracy theorists could understand. There isn't some massive conspiracy to make us all disbelieve in a flat earth, or reject Jesus, or install evil overlords. It's billionaires influencing the world to make money. Very bland compared to the epic battle of good versus evil they wish the world was.


Generally speaking all corporations understand is growth. They aren't necessarily interested in humanity, culture, etc. So, to them, there seems to be no need to preserve thing like different languages when they can homogenize everything into the most efficient language possible. Again, who knows but maybe one day artificial intelligence comes into play in a big way and really jumpstarts the siphoning of human culture.
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