Are you suggesting we are nearing the "tipping point", the precipice of equality (stemming of course from a globally connected world as never before with the internet and smart phones) where, if we dare, the world may enter a new stage of the one-world economy?
Now I know you didn't actually say this, but by your words, the suggestion of global equality is enticing, and with that eventually comes a one-world currency - think about it - because when we are all equals, all our works and goods are valued the same at this point so you can't get "cheap" labor anymore. The truth is, the more people get connected, the more they realize what they can have, and then demand it, and the prices of their services goes up. And the reality is, we are all getting more and more connected everyday, thus even in the most despot areas of the middle-east, legions of like-minded people can gather with a mere tweet. A service (such as your typical factory worker) can be just as valuable a good as any commodity (such as gold), thus it's only a matter of time before the inevitable; I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this: where corporations can no longer exploit cheaper workers in foreign countries to save a buck. And when this time comes, and the majority of the world has reached a saturation of equality, the one world currency abounds. To me, this is the penultimate outcome of what you have pointed out, which brings this thought experiment full circle.
I would like to add that I don't believe I'll live long enough to see this scenario play out because I believe global population growth is unsustainable into the near future in terms of food and drinkable water. It's getting hotter, and the lakes around here are getting lower and lower; we're overfishing the sea, and I don't know how many more resources like this we can burn up before that spells the end of us (we're suppose to run out of fish by 2048 or 2050). Anyways, there's food for thought, if I may throw the monkey-wrench in your astute observations of what the world might look like if we "stopped fighting" and became equals.
Now I know you didn't actually say this, but by your words, the suggestion of global equality is enticing, and with that eventually comes a one-world currency - think about it - because when we are all equals, all our works and goods are valued the same at this point so you can't get "cheap" labor anymore. The truth is, the more people get connected, the more they realize what they can have, and then demand it, and the prices of their services goes up. And the reality is, we are all getting more and more connected everyday, thus even in the most despot areas of the middle-east, legions of like-minded people can gather with a mere tweet. A service (such as your typical factory worker) can be just as valuable a good as any commodity (such as gold), thus it's only a matter of time before the inevitable; I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this: where corporations can no longer exploit cheaper workers in foreign countries to save a buck. And when this time comes, and the majority of the world has reached a saturation of equality, the one world currency abounds. To me, this is the penultimate outcome of what you have pointed out, which brings this thought experiment full circle.
I would like to add that I don't believe I'll live long enough to see this scenario play out because I believe global population growth is unsustainable into the near future in terms of food and drinkable water. It's getting hotter, and the lakes around here are getting lower and lower; we're overfishing the sea, and I don't know how many more resources like this we can burn up before that spells the end of us (we're suppose to run out of fish by 2048 or 2050). Anyways, there's food for thought, if I may throw the monkey-wrench in your astute observations of what the world might look like if we "stopped fighting" and became equals.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin