One world government a good or bad thing?

Question

Do you think that this world needs a one world government? With one justice system, currency, administration, health and medicare, and education system.

Do you think the human race would get a lot of things done a lot more faster? What are the pros and cons of one.

Answer 1

An alliance of governments, like the European Union is a good model for the future.

Establish basic standards and create a framework that enables all the partners to benefit from working together.

A set of alliances like this will be the next step.


Maybe eventually a world alliance.

But no, not a single world government.

That would not work so well.

Answer 2

There are good points , such as things like a unified currency or a standardized healthcare or administrative services. However, as about 48% of all Americans voters recently discovered in their last couple of elections and a non-small percentage of Russians and Germans beforehand, when government is good, its ok. When it's bad it REALLY sucks, at least for some people.

Basically World Government has some relatively advantages some of which we could implement, but there are significant disadvantages. Let's asume things went well and we had some sort of United Nations of Earth or Terran Alliance or something like that.

What kind of government should that be? More than 50% of all planetary citizens live under dictatorships or marginally representative governmental systems. So should China's system of governance prevail since they have the most people currently? Should a Parlimentary system be enacted, like many of the Commonwealth states of the old British Empire? Perhaps an American Congressional Representative system?

If things go wrong suddenly like in Communist China or creepingly go wrong - little by little - as has happened in the US or in Weinmar Germany. To whom could the "world" turn to if the government became terminally corrupt or controlled by oligarchs or became repressive in other ways, it could signal a very long and dark period for mankind as a whole.

For example, a unified currency might not sound so bad, who would administer that currency, how would people be paid - would a civil servant in New York be expected to earn as much as a civil servant in Tokyo (more expensive) or Chennai (much less expensive) or how about in such a removed location as Tatooine (in Libya) or Yellowknife (in Canada).

I think that once AI's are proven to be not pathologically anti-human and at least preservationist in their attitude and actions towards mankind (not genocidal in action - like the Cylons or Skynet).

An AI based administration WOULD be superior to human jurisdiction in many respects would be vastly preferable to some of our current ad-hoc systems because of the ability to comprehend and address complex issues which we cannot possibly comprehend (i.e.; planetary weather modification and/or control).

However, an AI government, might not always act in accordance with the wishes of the governed so an advisory council of AI's might be best when the day comes.

It's like this, most major states occupy the dominant part of a geographical area/continent (Russia, China, EU, US, Brazil, India) Regions larger than this could present a problem from the perspective of having to defeat that country. Imagine for a minute that the US got a REALLY bad president who started invading alot of countries (not just 1 or 2) , who could stop them , sure insurgents can slow them down but the US on a full war footing is not a totally benign thing (just ask the Japanese and the Germans) if you are on the receiving end.

Similarly, in another 5-10 years, China would be a dangerous and nearly unstoppable foe towards any one other country except perhaps India. Even the EU, US or Russia would have to resort to nuclear weapons at some point during any kind of conflict that lasted longer than a few days.

A theoretical "Caliphate" mentioned by the US president would be similarly constrained just like the EU or the US, it could say what-ever it wanted, place what ever restrictions on it's citizenry but such a caliphate would not be an ideal planet wide super-state for anyone other than Muslims.

Religion, Governance and Juris Prudence would all have to be altered to accomodate that new religion.

Think about it this way, I suspect when the day comes, if we find aliens in close approach to the solar system or landing on Earth, we would start to seriously consider making the UN something more than an advise and consent governing body.


Personally, I think that really only once there are large populations and substantial colonies around the solar system will there be anything approaching world government, and barring several technical miracles in the coming years I suspect that may be a couple of hundred years from now at least.

Answer 3

Of COURSE we'd get a lot of things done a lot faster. The question is what kind of things (like putting RFID chips in every person, maybe with a little cyanide charge that the gov't can activate if the person ever says anything out of line), and would we want to get them done?

Without a world government, there is almost always somewhere to run from any corrupt government. When the entire world is held under one power, where are you going to run once it becomes corrupt -- as all governments can and eventually do?

Answer 4

Criminals always move to take control of governments. America's Founders understood the corrupting influence and dangerous nature of government power. That is why they set up a system of checks and balances, in the hope of avoiding the corruption which has overtaken us now. A world government will be a living nightmare for the human race. Decentralization is the answer.

Answer 5

No but China is gonna piss off Americans, Mexicans engouh to agree to massive traiffs on Chinese goods. America should not outsource food production to china that is idoicy right there, and dont outsource every production line to China because when Chinese economy grows, and the Americans dont have the captial to build production lines for goods were in deep doo, doo. Comsumption and materialism is only so sustianble so long, and the people by nature dont want to go to school for 20 years just to make a living. If Chinese didnt cheap the currency so much im all for trading freely, but ricardo theory about trade and speicalization does hold when one country uses hiden fees, and taxes to harder for North American producers to sell. One world goverment will not happen, but countries will swich to the US dollar or Euro since the goverments will get too lazy to run a central bank, and inflation is lot easier to deal with once you have to have your own currency. El Salvidor, Pamana use the dollar for the reason its cheaper to buy goods in services in one currency than converting dominations all day. Plus, unstable goverments dont have the money to begin with to pay for a central bank.

Answer 6

I think that one world government would also mean one world tax. Multinational companies shelter their profits by changing the "realization" country. Wonder what one world gov would do? Nice difference of POV between political class and the multinational businesses, in this matter.

Would the multinationals become "uni-businesses"?

Would we have uni-franchisement? Unizenship?
Uni-freedom, I think not. The top of the pyramid would elevate it's self at the costs of the fragmented base.

Answer 7

It would be a total disaster to even try...how could there ever be an agreement between all the cultures in the world...Iam not about to live the way the hippies want, the Chinese, the east Indians, the Muslims..just to name a very few...the only solution to that would be brain wash everyone and cloning

Answer 8

Well... It would not be good for me to abide by certain laws. I mean look at nations that are theocratic, or even nations that are command economies etc. I think a single government would not effectively control and rule the entire world. Also, how would that be accomplished? By force? I doubt you could convince all of humanity to be ruled by a single man from say _____ tan.

Answer 9

It would be good but it would need balancing powers and anti-corruption forces. For example every continent or region (eastasia,North America,Africa, etc) be like states with their own statelike power with enough breathing room to carry on their own tasks. Their would be a president like figure who serves 7 years for 1 term, a senate/parliament with representatives from every nation. The military would be every nation s army rolled up into one. Either way we are going to have to cooperate or gradually go extinct. We spent thousands of years to get to this point we can t lose it

Answer 10

through fact there'll continually be extra human beings in the international than there are human beings on your u . s .. And by way of basic math (the actuality that something of the international outnumbers you), your u . s . could finally end up on the fast end of stick whilst it comprises what's excellent to your u . s .. working example, enable's say we style a international Congress, the place each and every u . s . gets one representative, and one vote. Then, between the 192 representatives proposes a "wealth fairness" bill that taxes the voters of the ten richest international places at 25% and provides it to the different 182 international places. it would bypass 182-10, and while you're in a sort of wealthy international places, you have now had your taxes raised by way of 25% by way of a bunch of representatives you probably did no longer have of project to vote for.