Is “world government” an explicit metaphor for alignment and empathy across more of humanity, or a literal (and wrong) belief that citizenship papers control allegiance of individuals?
The problematic competition (also, the necessary creative competition) is at least as visible in non-governmental organizations as in governments, so I don’t buy the unstated premise that government is the right measure of unity for the entire thesis.
Monopolistic force isn’t enough. To be able to enforce, you need to be able to detect the wrongdoers. You need to be able to provide sufficient punishment to motivate people into obedience. Even then, you will still get the odd crazy person breaking the rules.
Some potential rules, like “don’t specification game this metric” are practically unenforceable. The soviets didn’t manage to make the number of goods on paper equal the amount in reality. It was too hard for the rulers to detect every possible trick that could make the numbers on paper go up.
Is “world government” an explicit metaphor for alignment and empathy across more of humanity, or a literal (and wrong) belief that citizenship papers control allegiance of individuals?
The problematic competition (also, the necessary creative competition) is at least as visible in non-governmental organizations as in governments, so I don’t buy the unstated premise that government is the right measure of unity for the entire thesis.
Neither. Governments are effectively defined by wielding monopolistic force, not by citizenship papers.
Monopolistic force isn’t enough. To be able to enforce, you need to be able to detect the wrongdoers. You need to be able to provide sufficient punishment to motivate people into obedience. Even then, you will still get the odd crazy person breaking the rules.
Some potential rules, like “don’t specification game this metric” are practically unenforceable. The soviets didn’t manage to make the number of goods on paper equal the amount in reality. It was too hard for the rulers to detect every possible trick that could make the numbers on paper go up.