The Nation State Is Not That Old

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The nation state will always be with us. It'snot that old. What if we return to the city state as the place with, you kno poores, economic and political boarders? People can come and go as they please. There's no worries about immigration. Poverty's going to end with a sort of posta, post poverty economics or treconomics. The european union ar expanding around the globe. And so i think what we are going to see is an increasing development of large scale economic union unitso whichde their own essential government systems.

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