This game has terrible reviews on Steam. I am a huge Civ fan, I've played everything since III and up, but I have not gotten this because of the large amount of negative reviews. Apparently the AI is shit and they rushed the game.
My understanding is that "globalism" is distinct from "global" things like the Internet. "Globalism" a political/economic strategy for increasing corporate/banking/military hegemony. The UN is a "globalist" organization, as is the IMF, World Bank, etc. because they are global power players (funded by a few powerful interests like the US).
Things like the internet, or Bitcoin, are anti-globalist because they reduce the power of centralized (and global in reach) power structures.
I guess it's true you haven't met many anarchists. The ones I know consider any/all governments as criminal organizations per se, and are not simply opposed to the current regime.
"The markets are self regulating they said, no need for government intervention they said."
Markets do regulate, but there's no market here. It's a locked-up duopoly. You can't expect the homeostatic powers of competitive markets to apply to firms in a cartel.
It's a nice theory, but the means and ends are incompatible. You don't advance the public benefit by criminalizing derivative or similar works and granting the original creator a monopoly. You benefit the public by opening all such inventions immediately.
"When a mechanism starts doing things that run counter to its purpose, we declare it "broken" and either throw it out or take it to a specialist to repair it."
This has always been the purpose of copyright, and to accept the premise that monopoly status be granted to a producer to "encourage people to create useful things and bring them to the public domain" is to fall for selfish rationaliations by the nose.
Copyright and other forms of intellectual property have always been exlcusive monopoly privileges to benefit a favored producer - it has never been about the commonweal.
In the words of a great intellectual hero Freddie Bastiat:
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.
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Network effects, technical features, and brand recognition.
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Things like the internet, or Bitcoin, are anti-globalist because they reduce the power of centralized (and global in reach) power structures.
Just my take on it.
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Except for the anarchists, I suppose.
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Markets do regulate, but there's no market here. It's a locked-up duopoly. You can't expect the homeostatic powers of competitive markets to apply to firms in a cartel.
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Do you support armed men arresting someone for publicizing their political choice?
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Switzerland has much better internet privacy laws the United States does.
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"How would YOU like it if I copied your X.. ?
"Good luck! Go for it!"
*crickets*
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Andrew Joseph Galambos.
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No disagreement here. I was just offering Bastiat's words without comment.
He does say later in The Law that "the best way to make men respect laws is to make laws respectable."
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This has always been the purpose of copyright, and to accept the premise that monopoly status be granted to a producer to "encourage people to create useful things and bring them to the public domain" is to fall for selfish rationaliations by the nose.
Copyright and other forms of intellectual property have always been exlcusive monopoly privileges to benefit a favored producer - it has never been about the commonweal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law#Early_privileges_and_monopolies
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.
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