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From:[info]lasitajs
Date:January 31st, 2013 - 04:27 pm
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Your vision is grand. But if i get your drift, are you saying that it would be easier to implement such changes in smaller and sovereign country rather than big and / or federal?

If so then that might not be true. Looking at human rights – big advances in human / worker's rights have happened in big countries (USA – Virginia Declaration, France - Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Britan - Bill of Rights: just off the top of my head). I'm guessing there's a need for a critical mass to reach a tipping point.

Then again, one's always free to rewrite the history.
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From:[info]brookings
Date:January 31st, 2013 - 04:39 pm
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possibly - actually the critical mass point is well taken. However, I think the main thing is that in a large federal state such as the EU, change will come from the top down (you can be pro EU, but still be aware of the democratic 'deficit' there), and I don't see any top-down measure changing the existing priviliged position of the currency-creating class.