Yep. Most intelligent people would agree that world government would solve many of the whopper problems. What is difficult is agreeing on the toolkit for making the collective decisions. How much say would you want to give a voter in India or Malawi over your minimum wage or marriage contract?
Again, I don't believe it is about "they and us". It is all "us".We just have to find way together to make the world fair for everyone.
If I buy a piece of electronic equipment, produced on what we in the west would call slave labour, and where the people who produce it have no choice but to participate in the slave labour, and hate their life and days etc as a slave. Then I would be contributing to slavery.
A global mimimum wage would for prevent that everything becomes about the lowest common denominator. That a company can move from one place to another, just to exploit the desperate. But then again, I don't believe in a minumum wage, I believe in workers rights. If we have no minimum wage, ofcourse companies will move to countries with no workers rights, because its cheaper!
On the other hand, it is good for those people to be able to work to afford basic things. But it is only good in a dysfunctional world where they can otherwise not afford basic things like food.
We HAVE to have global human rights (including minimum workers rights, to abolish modern slavery).
We CAN distribute food to everyone.
We have the POSSIBILITIES now to distribute sexual education and condoms to everyone in the world who wants that.
We COULD provide a practical education to everyone in the world.
BUT BUT BUT.
We have no global human rights, so countries are free to treat their people as they want, including cruel and terrible acts, EVERY DAY.
We in the west buy products from producers who use slave labour, and we put absolutely no demand on them at all.
In the developed world, we eat so much that we die from it. We dispose of enourmous amounts of food. In the poor countries they would sacrifice their life just to eat the food we dispose of, because they die from lack of food. These people cannot at all be productive, not physically, not intellectually, nothing, nada. They have to spend all their time worrying about food, often in total misery. But why is this, when the world produce more than enough food for everyone?
Personally I believe it is because of the economic mode, because of profit etc. Capitalism WILL make sure one part of the population is rich and that one part is poor.
I am not talking about free market economy, which we had for thousands of years already, but capitalism.
We have a population disaster around the world. We have absolutely no control and the situation is dangerous for all of us. The planet is already overpopulated, we cannot manage ourself at all. With population growth out of control, it almost works as a guarantee that we never will be able to.
In the old days, they sent missionaries from churches to the world for a variety of purposes. If we wanted to we could send a million people for 10 years to provide sexual education, provide ways to prevent unwanted pregnancy, provide some hope, basical knowledge and equipment to the ones in the world who needs that. And that sad thing is, that it would take less money than 1 year of defense spending in the US to do so. We would be able to do it for 10 years, 1 million "missionaries".
If we double that and send 1 million teachers in addition we can make a real difference.
We would prevent wars, disasters, hunger etc. Just for rediverting 2 years worth of defense spending.
But its not really about the money, its about people, the equipment and time. But in our economic model, its not possible to think like that, because the only thing which count, is money.
Which in my opinion is pathetic system.
