[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Yehuda Katz]

Lets make the discussion relevant  to the 21st century ,
Shall we discuss APAC as a Stakeholder as it is involved in the American Multi
stakeholder Political Landscape. It's a much better analogy to work with, and
scales globally in its effects through U.S. Foreign Policies.

The point made, is that Multi stakeholder' Group(s) can be just as effective
upon the population as the Despots (Hitler, Mussolini etc...), Just to be
clear, I'm only making a point about the 'Effectiveness' of a group and that of
an individual, not the political ideology associated (good or bad).

Either way there is an associated economies-to-scale within the era that allow
these powers to be created. And for the most part those economies are
capitalists (although some are Socialist with capatalist underpinnings).

Until now in Human History, I belive (as may Milton), that it is "possible",
that the Internet has 'significantly-reduced' the  requisite
'economies-to-scale' previously necessary for the rise too Power [by an
Individual (political figure) or Stakeholder Group], so that an Individual
(personal empowerment) within a Direct Democracy can be had, without the need
for representative surrogate (Leader or Group).

The Internet can level the playing field 'Politically', however the Internet
cannot level the playing field 'Economically', so the issue  regarding Human
Rights in regards to 'needs' (Standards of Living) cannot be resolved by the
Internet, they can be only resolved through a system of economic fair trade
working in equilibrium.

While we are on this subject, I would also point out that equal efforts toward
finding equilibrium must be put forth on the Ecological Playing field as well.
Over Population is the primary problem at this point in time, and any scaling
up made through say, Internet Governance efficiency, impacts the Human
Population and thus the Environment takes the brunt of the Ecological tax. 

So the two (Economy and Ecology are intrinsèque) are equally important, Anyway
you get the idea.

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