@Ben Davis
How do you measure if a law has been implemented with a positive outcome? Do you directly ask the people of each EU's member state to provide their opinion? How large of a sample? And if a measure has both benefits and cons, how do we know which is more relevant? I will provide an easy example, I live in Portugal and with the € as currency coming in circa 2001 most people thought it would be entirely positive - While there are benefits for a single currency, an example of a negative aspect I can instantly think of (that I remember well despite being a kid back then) is that the prices for almost everything rose due to the € being a more "powerful" coin than our previous currency. Obviously, this is something seriously troubling for lower class people.
Would those nations benefit considerably, or would the USA and Canada benefit the most?
Again, this is a problem of corruption. If politicians are corrupt and represent interests of outsiders and do not follow the will of the people, the supra organizations formed by states will be, by definition, corrupt.
While you mentioned a world government I actually believe the opposite will happen - regionalization. We are already seeing a perfect example with the situation of Catalonia in Spain. Catalonia wants its independence and a significant part of the population doesn't consider themselves Spanish. How does this scenario fit in a world government when a minuscule piece of land (compared to the size of the entire planet) has trouble keeping itself "attached" to a slightly larger institution?
How do you measure if a law has been implemented with a positive outcome? Do you directly ask the people of each EU's member state to provide their opinion? How large of a sample? And if a measure has both benefits and cons, how do we know which is more relevant? I will provide an easy example, I live in Portugal and with the € as currency coming in circa 2001 most people thought it would be entirely positive - While there are benefits for a single currency, an example of a negative aspect I can instantly think of (that I remember well despite being a kid back then) is that the prices for almost everything rose due to the € being a more "powerful" coin than our previous currency. Obviously, this is something seriously troubling for lower class people.
Would those nations benefit considerably, or would the USA and Canada benefit the most?
Again, this is a problem of corruption. If politicians are corrupt and represent interests of outsiders and do not follow the will of the people, the supra organizations formed by states will be, by definition, corrupt.
While you mentioned a world government I actually believe the opposite will happen - regionalization. We are already seeing a perfect example with the situation of Catalonia in Spain. Catalonia wants its independence and a significant part of the population doesn't consider themselves Spanish. How does this scenario fit in a world government when a minuscule piece of land (compared to the size of the entire planet) has trouble keeping itself "attached" to a slightly larger institution?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
