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Some of you may remember this scene from one of the Naked Gun movies.

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The currency idea is an intriguing one. I'd go a step farther and propose a global version of the idea being implemented in the European Union. The EU provides a common currency and strict requirements that limit the behavior of member countries.

Workplace saftey and working conditions laws are a key point here. As others have pointed out, the cheapest labor is slave labor. Third world countries can outcompete first world countries by enslaving millions and forcing them to work in terrible conditions. This is in fact happening in many parts of the world as we speak. The capitalist economy demands it.

Consider the results of implementing US class labor laws in all third world countries, and sanctioning those that refuse to comply. Workers would be treated far better and paid far more, but only those who keep their jobs. Most companies, being driven by greed, would play complex shell games that resemble the current Bahamas tax havens in an effort to skirt labor laws and cut deals with the sanctioned nations. Particularly dictatorships, which play by the rules of the man in charge. A man who is easily bribed.

With a global currency instituted, these dictators would not be able to print and manage their own currencies in the global market, but they would be able to steal currency that falls within their borders, replacing it with local money, to finance their own interests.

Corporations would soon play the same shell game. Countries that don't follow the rules set up impoverished local economies, which are drained by vampiric corporations that use local labor, pay with local money, and rake in international money. In such a situation the workers are essentially working for free, and even providing their own food. There can be no cheaper labor, so a complex web of holding companies and hidden deals will be arranged to allow greedier companies to exploit the countries outside international law.

Soon the abusive companies would gain a substantial competitive advantage over those that only operate in the legal zones. By smuggling in cheap goods, they would undercut competitors and create a result identical to Prohibition in the US.

Remember what happened there? The evils of alcohol, which was ruining society, were fought by banning liquor altogether. Only criminals could distribute alochol, so criminals did. The US mafia went from an insignificant annoyance to well funded, well armed, immensely powerful criminal empires. The same thing will happen on a much greater scale if the world is divided along legal lines into "legal" and "illegal" countries. Some international corporations will turn to crime, create private armies to defend themselves against enforcement, and bring down the whole system, forcing reversion to the current model where each country controls its own destiny, free from international law.

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Well at least she's patriotic.

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