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The2ndWheel

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13. The question I have with that would be

Reply to jalan48 (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 23, 2015, 01:37 PM

Jul 2015

Where would you stop in the disconnection? Are you for, as an example, local schools teaching whatever they want to teach? Is it any large and distant entity, or just big business?

We can't really do both, because large and small are different. One doesn't fit into the other, either way. We try to do both, but nothing really works. As another example, we have global corporations, but at the same time we have regional governments all acting in their own interests, so corporate power can play one against the other fairly easily. Nobody really listens to the UN.

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Humankind is at a fork in the road [View all] FlatBaroque Jul 2015 OP

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Erich, the next financial collapse, which in my estimation FlatBaroque Jul 2015 #3

Only vaguely. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #5

here's one story about Portland. FlatBaroque Jul 2015 #11

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Actively growing the apple is the first step toward intermediation The2ndWheel Jul 2015 #4

Not sure I understand your reasoning FlatBaroque Jul 2015 #6

Actively growing the apple requires control of the tree The2ndWheel Jul 2015 #7

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Thanks for the post. jalan48 Jul 2015 #12

The question I have with that would be The2ndWheel Jul 2015 #13

Perhaps corporations need to become more subserviant to governments. jalan48 Jul 2015 #14

It seems to me our current international economy is incredibly fragile. hunter Jul 2015 #15