The end of the world is just beginning for shipping
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#2Interesting to combine this line of thinking with the transition from nation-states to market-states:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1744057060106386...
The power vacuum that's arisen from populism & isolationism is about to create a gigantic untapped market for firms that provide the services of a state - defense, dispute resolution, and currency - for a fee, to gigantic multinational corporations. At the same time, there are nascent technologies (drones and robotics for defense, blockchain and the Internet for dispute resolution & currency) that dramatically lower the cost of many of these services, to the point where we may see private companies that are more effective than nation-states at it. Might we see the nation-state get replaced by a web of competing mercenaries, each of which effectively serves as a protection racket for their customers?
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#3I don't know how to phrase this but this feels like a lot of truisms / a few reasonable possibilities and then some pretty BIG leaps as far as predictions go.
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#4Interesting to combine this line of thinking with the transition from nation-states to market-states: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1744057060106386... The power vacuum that's arisen from populism & isolationism is about to create a gigantic untapped market for firms that provide the services of a state - defense, dispute resolution, and currency - for a fee, to gigantic multinational corporations. At t…
That's all government has ever been and will always be: a protection racket.
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#5Interesting to combine this line of thinking with the transition from nation-states to market-states: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1744057060106386... The power vacuum that's arisen from populism & isolationism is about to create a gigantic untapped market for firms that provide the services of a state - defense, dispute resolution, and currency - for a fee, to gigantic multinational corporations. At t…
May i recommend Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong?
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#6There's an incredibly important "the" missing from this submission title entirely changing the meaning.
edit: It's actually missing from the page title on TFA too. Baffling.
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#7Interesting to combine this line of thinking with the transition from nation-states to market-states: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1744057060106386... The power vacuum that's arisen from populism & isolationism is about to create a gigantic untapped market for firms that provide the services of a state - defense, dispute resolution, and currency - for a fee, to gigantic multinational corporations. At t…
That's all government has ever been and will always be: a protection racket.
you're saying the quiet part out loud... it's supposed to be the arbiter of civil rights, fairness, and enablement, with the convenient side effect of enriching a very small group of people who actually pull the strings
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#8This reads like a lot of Mahanism (He Who Controls The Seas Controls The World) in a new coat of paint. And that Mahanism is the greatest self-fulfilling prophecy combined with a big kernel of truth should be self-evident looking at human history. So, while not false in itself, also nothing earthshatteringly new.
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#9Interesting to combine this line of thinking with the transition from nation-states to market-states: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1744057060106386... The power vacuum that's arisen from populism & isolationism is about to create a gigantic untapped market for firms that provide the services of a state - defense, dispute resolution, and currency - for a fee, to gigantic multinational corporations. At t…
May i recommend Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong?
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#10> Russia is blockading Ukraine grain exports
Russia say that it's Ukraine refusing to demine the waters that it, Ukraine, mined in the first place. I've also read that the impact of the (lack of) grain exports is drastically overblown