Decided to make a thread for this after going off topic in SNV. Want to avoid the mods' naughty chair...
When most of the world's population leads a secure existence and does not have to resort to whoring itself out to multinational companies for low pay, long working hours and terrible conditions - i.e. when capitalism has developed the whole world enough through the excruciatingly slow 'trickle-down' effect - and subsequently workers' rights have improved to a global standard more similar to that of 'the west', the global working population will have the power to request greater redistribution through democracy. There will be no threat of corporations outsourcing/picking up and leaving to somewhere markedly cheaper because nowhere would be markedly cheaper - the BRICS of today, along with all those currently undeveloped countries would all have similar pay and working conditions. From this point, especially in a system of global democratic governance, the overwhelmingly large impoverished class could effectively lobby for greater redistribution if represented properly. And from there who knows...
It is all dependent on who gets to call the shots really. At the moment, corporations are bigger than governments and as such can assert a degree of control over them. A global government could keep them in check and assure balanced growth across the globe. True Socialism and Communism will never again work at the level of the nation-state however.
No, it won't. It really won't.
Any political system which seeks to stifle aspiration and individuality is doomed to failure because it sets itself against millions of years of evolution. Mankind (like any species) is hardwired to compete. It's in our DNA.
When most of the world's population leads a secure existence and does not have to resort to whoring itself out to multinational companies for low pay, long working hours and terrible conditions - i.e. when capitalism has developed the whole world enough through the excruciatingly slow 'trickle-down' effect - and subsequently workers' rights have improved to a global standard more similar to that of 'the west', the global working population will have the power to request greater redistribution through democracy. There will be no threat of corporations outsourcing/picking up and leaving to somewhere markedly cheaper because nowhere would be markedly cheaper - the BRICS of today, along with all those currently undeveloped countries would all have similar pay and working conditions. From this point, especially in a system of global democratic governance, the overwhelmingly large impoverished class could effectively lobby for greater redistribution if represented properly. And from there who knows...
It is all dependent on who gets to call the shots really. At the moment, corporations are bigger than governments and as such can assert a degree of control over them. A global government could keep them in check and assure balanced growth across the globe. True Socialism and Communism will never again work at the level of the nation-state however.