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Sharing the Work, the workweek attached to the unemployment rate, would create such prosperity as would amount to virtual Global Reparations, mean noone would ever have to keep a job they didn't like, and mean no corporation would ever again be considered too big to fail.

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I do not agree with Schwab in everything, but the reality is that there is no national sovereignty when it comes to AI, climate change, terrorism, and even many economic things as cryptocurrencies. Also, one of the basic things with a nation-state is the idea about a nation existing for a state and a state existing for nation. What about the climate, planet and humanity in general?

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Speaking about the Great Reset and opinions. You are writing that Americans think about X. Much of research about voting behaviours and democracy shows that humans often "feel" about X than think regarding elections and politics.

So for example, "protecting jobs", how many people who have opinions about that and the role of a government have read academic papers about economy, globalization and work? Also, do jobs have nationality as in "American jobs"?

Many people use the nation as some starting point for interpretation of complex social reality.

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There are many myths about globalization and middle-class in America.

First of all, jobs are mainly vanishing because of technology, not because of trade. So why blame immigrants and markets, instead of robots and computers?

Second, one reason behind reducing of the middle class in the USA is because many became richer and upper-middle class or even upper class. Also, much of the American middle class today is subsides by federal government programs.

Third. The American economy in general is still better thanks to globalization and freer policies, while preventiionist and nationalist policies will make it worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJM4BBIpv2Q

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Yes, Huntington was making such statements about the global/international level. Did he ver expressed similar statements about the USA? I mean, jobs are moving between California and Texas so why not create tariffs and barriers within the USA?

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I do not agree with you regarding democracy and I think that you are making wrong conclusions. Because

1. Global market economy needs also global rule of law and democracy as via World Parliament. Plus that decentralization as via cryptocurrencies can also make global level rules

2. Populist, preventionist and privillage behaviours among many middle-class Americans is actually a problem for democracy. Because people are demanding things from the government that are unrealistic and impossible, which can result in even more demands for authoritarian behaviours and politicians as Trump. "Middle-class interests" are not automatically democratic

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The thing with WEF is that it is about globalism and being pro-globalization but in a centralizing way. While Davos is based in Switzerland, a place of decentralized democracy.

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