The competitive pressures between nations ensured that it was all inevitable. It is impossible to imagine how things could have realistically been different to today in a positive way. It appears that humanity is restructuring due to population pressure and resource limits.wtf wrote:Only going to get worse. That's what globalism is about. Anti-globalists have a point, even if the likes of Trump and Le Pen are not always the ideal representatives.Greta wrote:The government is charged with representing taxpayers. However, governments - especially those from the right of the political spectrum - increasingly only work for large institutions. Human individuals in large societies seem to be essentially a kind of livestock now.
The bigger the population, the more the task of coordinating the disparate interests is like herding cats so the trend towards authoritarianism worldwide is to be expected, and for the trend to continue. Further, when an institution affects thousands of people, the interests of an individual are logically less important. The issue with the trolley problem is numbers - it's one thing to weigh up one life against, say, five others but it's a whole different situation to assess the accumulated weight of the economic interests of 100,000 people against the lives of the few.
So we individuals are now numbers, chattel. Presidential, or governmental, interest in individuals tends to largely be based on PR opportunities. The idea is to briefly touch the lives of likeable individuals just before elections to give the impression of caring so as to dupe voters into voting against their own interests.