Reply #14: Right, because they're local governments [View All]

The only way government works is when it's a monopoly. The world is far from a monopoly when it comes to governing. It's also easier today to move around the world than ever. When place mattered, unions in the US were strong. Then as the 20th century went by, the various barriers around the world were coming down, except one. Corporations are now multi-national. Board members from every place on the planet. Shareholders from all over. Governments, however, are still confined to specific places. Governments still exist in a world with lines drawn on maps.

If you want international this, or universal that, then you're going to have to come up with an international, or universal government, with the ability to enforce those equal standards everywhere. Government will have to become multi-national to be the necessary comparable power. Hell, it would have to make a term such as multi-national obsolete. The same with outsourcing. If there is no outside, if there is no other, then the concept no longer exists.