Reminds me of some entrepreneurial advice I read a while ago: Also, What makes you think that would be any different if we had one world government?I was in a meeting not long ago where my CTO told me that a new application we're working on is going to help a major well known bank in that they won't have to hire 1,500 people to do the work manually. I don't know why he told us that, as it's honestly kind of depressing. But I work in IT, part of what we do is automation and making it easier for less people to do more is kind of our thing. But it's the darkside of my job that I don't really enjoy thinking about.
Don’t call yourself a programmer: “Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.” If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired. You know Salesforce, widely perceived among engineers to be a Software as a Services company? Their motto and sales point is “No Software”, which conveys to their actual customers “You know those programmers you have working on your internal systems? If you used Salesforce, you could fire half of them and pocket part of the difference in your bonus.” (There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way. You’re in the business of unemploying people. If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn’t matter.)
Things cost money, and until we have a one world government and one currency, things like trade, GDP/GNP, and the value of our currency play a major role in what our government can spend on it's people.
Because our currency wouldn't have to be strong or hold up in a world market. If there was only one currency, money wouldn't really matter. We COULD just print it and give it to everyone based on whatever set of rules we wanted to. We could move away from current pay structures, and it would give the government a much more flexible way to approach how we take care of our people and our living standards. Also, I'm not a programmer I'm in Infrastructure, but that was an interesting read. :)What makes you think that would be any different if we had one world government?
That article is a fantastic read by the way. If you haven't posted it in the past, you should be doing that right now.