At some scale, what does work "in our daily lives" ('our' meaning the two people speaking) can provably not work on the scale at which politicians at international conferences must work.

Take Communism. I don't mean Socialism under the name Communism, but actual free, equal, everyone shares everything equally and works hard for it Communism. It can, among a small family-sized or tribal-sized unit with willing participation, work quite well. It has never been shown to work at sizes much larger than that. The logistics alone of just making sure people in one geographic region get an equal share of fresh crops from another geographic region are daunting.

Take credit. Two friends can lend each other money at no interest, and close friends sometimes are okay with losing exact track of who owes what to whom. That doesn't work with the bank downtown. It certainly won't work at a national or international level.

As a final example, take school curriculum standardization. It works for local districts and maybe even states in the US. It works for some whole countries. Yet I doubt you'll see Sweden and the Philippines agreeing on a standard curriculum soon. It certainly wouldn't work between India and Iran.

In reply to Re^2: The Real World and Theory by mr_mischief
in thread The Real World and Theory by heth

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