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| Topic | If Earth became one nation, where should the capital be? |
| adjl 02/01/24 12:53:49 PM #9: | Plus a vote still only has as much power as anyone can enforce the vote with. If somebody doesn't like the outcome of the vote, they can just not accept it and fight anyone who disagrees. Unless you had a massive enough consensus to overwhelm dissenters with the associated military power, you'd still end up with people fighting over it.
In practice, I don't know that there even needs to be a capital. In the modern age, government doesn't have to be physically in the same place to govern. There'd be some squabbling over which time zone would be used to schedule meetings, since officials far away from that time zone would need to work nights, but otherwise everyone could just work from home and there's no need to establish a single city to be the heart of the world government. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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