Originally posted by Seeker
Only a world government which has gone through the traumatic process of redistributing wealth and power on the planet on a more roughly equal basis (through market mechanisms OF COURSE all you dumb socialists out there), which has global mininum wages, taxes, labour and environmental laws, unionization regs, infrastructure, education and health care etc etc can have true free trade (all labour, goods, and services), which would allow the Keynesian system to actually work with out all the stupid external artifical intrusions created by soveriegn nations and borders, can plan and allocate resources for long-term megaprojects of benefit to all humanity. They would not be weighed down by pathetic notions of international competion, 'defence' spending, all the incredibly wasteful duplication created by propping up those sad reminders of old tyrannies, the nation-states. I don't know why you consider this 'post-capitalist', this is just liberalism without the nation-state. And colonization of space would be one such megaproject this newly freed Leviathan would consider. Not at the top of list, certainly, but ON the list, because of the long-term benefits of another sanctuary for the human race, for science research, to, frankly, get rid of undesirables, etc.
Only a world government which has gone through the traumatic process of redistributing wealth and power on the planet on a more roughly equal basis (through market mechanisms OF COURSE all you dumb socialists out there), which has global mininum wages, taxes, labour and environmental laws, unionization regs, infrastructure, education and health care etc etc can have true free trade (all labour, goods, and services), which would allow the Keynesian system to actually work with out all the stupid external artifical intrusions created by soveriegn nations and borders, can plan and allocate resources for long-term megaprojects of benefit to all humanity. They would not be weighed down by pathetic notions of international competion, 'defence' spending, all the incredibly wasteful duplication created by propping up those sad reminders of old tyrannies, the nation-states. I don't know why you consider this 'post-capitalist', this is just liberalism without the nation-state. And colonization of space would be one such megaproject this newly freed Leviathan would consider. Not at the top of list, certainly, but ON the list, because of the long-term benefits of another sanctuary for the human race, for science research, to, frankly, get rid of undesirables, etc.
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