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Ask HN: What are the issues you think that a 'World Government' would solve?

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Centralization will only further the distance between government and individual citizens. We're already too centralized.

Would it solve anything? With many countries we can look to each other for ideas on how to improve things. If one government that is not possible.

You can still have a federated world-government.

Isn't that the purpose of United Nations?

Not really

The US federal government learns from the states. Obamacare is largely from then-governor Romney's healthcare plan for MA.

Tragedy of the commons regulation for global shared stocks/sinks - e.g. there's a single shared global atmosphere that we're collectively not managing very well.

I don't believe world government "would" necessarily solve this, but it might help.

Another question might be "what are the issues that a world government might cause".

E.g. there isn't a guarantee that world government is going to be representative, care about interests other than its own, not be repressive. At least with smaller scope governments it is in principle easier to flee.

Perhaps another question would be: why would member states / individuals voluntarily join a world government and choose to stay part of it? How would that be a good tradeoff for them?

Wars. Inequality. But mostly: establish a global civilization that is sustainable enough to survive in the long run.

I note in World War I the German, Russian and British monarchs were all cousins. I probably put a world government as the close to the next world war; win-win deals have all been exhausted and only win-lose deals remain, made by people, on a world government level, who have huge influence.

None. A world government would have to devolve into smaller de-facto polities to even be able to administrate the entire planet, thereby recreating all of the problems that currently exist without a world government.

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