RE: Why Governments Fight Each Other Than Work Together?
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People want to believe governments are extensions of the community providing a peaceful way to resolve disputes through discourse and democracy. We all learned this kind of thing in civics.
In reality, governments are territorial monopolies in violence, or gangs writ large. And gangs have turf wars because they turn every encounter from a possible win-win into a zero-sum game at best, and often a choice between bad or worse.
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Damn Jacob you summed it up perfectly. The government is just a freaking Mafia looking out for their own gains. It's sad though because that was not their purpose.
Speaking of, do you think it'll be more ideal for robots to take over the government because the problem of government is that it's people in power that are running it
I have to disagree on the purpose of the government. Sure, there's its sales pitch to the public, but it has always been a territorial monopoly in violence to enrich a political class, whether monarchy or democracy.
Having some kind of robotic or algorithmic computerized replacement just hides the plunder behind a veneer of impartiality. Computers suffer garbage in-garbage out, and the people programming it are not immune to the same temptations of an open government.
oh damn you're right on this one man, I guess I didn't consider that it's the same people that'll be controlling the computer to control us so same results