This has no takers, but is progressing untaken anyway, though not as fast as if people actually embraced it. It is not a process that needs consent. Merely lack of global political synchronization. Have geopolitical pluralism, will neoliberalize.
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Part that NGD can’t do without explicit political enabling: Internet of Migrants. Global work-based green cards would help get there. De facto citizenship of MNCs instead of countries. They can move people around in ways countries can’t. Without that big loss of life.
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Love it or hate it, large corporate platforms are the only things around with leveraged global action capability that aren’t beholden to either democratic gridlock or dictatorial militarism.
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Small-scale decentralized ancapotopia is nice for sci-fi but has shown zero ability to compete in evolutionary terms. It might be the other side of Great Weirding after platform capitalism punches through and collapses in the process. Like a booster rocket.
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Our current state is at the bottom of a deep economic gravity well. Stable anthropocene evolutionary path is like low-earth orbit. Imagining we can get out of the well with small local measures is like trying to build a staircase to low-earth orbit.
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This misses the whole jobs and income piece. Add UBI
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