A world without borders
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While the refugee status debate rages once more over on Ox pol
I wonder what the world would look like 20 years after the removal of all borders?
Imagine the UN, powerful and apolitical, abolished itself after setting up a world parlement.
I read this book a few years back.
It's pretty impressive political theory.
The age of consent
I imagine that after 20 years of massive migration to and fro across the planet, people would end up more or less where they wanted to be purely on their terms.
Empoverished countries in the 21st century would, after initial de population, re populate by those with ideas and means to achieve great things.
Lets face it, there are few countries/places in the world that have NO potential. (except Minnisota and Tasmania )
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Thats what I think too.
Corporations cant control a workforce that can get up and move.
War cant exist in everyone can just leave.
And just think how nice it would be, think of the temporary home swap potentialComment
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A world without borders? shudder... Not until the population is down to around ten percent of where it is now, thanks.What are you doing about it?
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why?
spread it around a bit, keep to 2 kids, theres plenty of space in south america, north america australia if it's decentralisedComment
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I'm all for it! However I suspect it will be 10's of generations before we evolve to the point, where the idea of desoleving boarders could even be introduced in national legislatures.
It may be that the coming sea level rise and mass migration from the flooded areas will force the issue.
At the moment I'd be happy with a free citizenship exchange.
Nation states suck.Greg H. - from before the great crash, 20th century member 108
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I'm all for it! However I suspect it will be 10's of generations before we evolve to the point, where the idea of desoleving boarders could even be introduced in national legislatures.
It may be that the coming sea level rise and mass migration from the flooded areas will force the issue.
At the moment I'd be happy with a free citizenship exchange.
Nation states suck.
Just imagine if the USA tore down it's border with Mexico or we tore down our boarder with indonesia.
Initially you'd have chaos. But migrants work hard.
Given the right sort of environment and wage regulation, you'd have the good workers of either country working productively, the useless ones can take their still superior education and relatively higher assetts over to mexico where they would have the capital to do something...or notLast edited by Meli; 08-08-2012, 09:14 AM.Comment
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free citizenship exchange only allows the have's to re locate. That's going to do squat
Just imagine if the USA tore down it's border with Mexico or we tore down our boarder with indonesia.
Initially you'd have chaos. But migrants work hard.
Given the right sort of environment and wage regulation, you'd have the good workers of either country working productively, the useless ones can take their still superior education and relatively higher assetts over to mexico where they would have the capital to do something...or not
I'd be happy to trade with someone who really wants to be here. All the immigrants I've worked with (legal and illegal) work much harder than a lot of the ' Merican exceptionalists'Greg H. - from before the great crash, 20th century member 108
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There is no rational, logical, or physical description of how free will could exist. It therefore makes no sense to praise or condemn anyone on the grounds they are a free willed self that made one choice but could have chosen something else. There is no evidence that such a situation is possible in our Universe. Demonstrate otherwise and I will be thrilled.Comment
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A world without borders would be good business for people who sell fencing.
In South Africa, as soon as they tore down their internal borders, people by necessity began throwing up borders around property and family, which extended into security villages and safety enclaves.It will all be OK in the end...so if it's not OK, you're not at the end.Comment
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