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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (128694)	4/8/2004 1:14:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

BBM, any idea that's not conventional wisdom comes across as eccentric. Luddites love conformity and the status quo. Mq PS: It's not just governments. Even in my well-paid job in BP where they paid me to come up with stuff, they all too often did nothing, but did later when public complaints or government demands or other exogenous pressures caused them to act. Now, belatedly, most of my ideas are corporate policy. Similarly in Globalstar, they are only now adopting some of the ideas I was promoting [across the desk, in person, both in NZ and in San Jose] when they thought they were King Kong. Instead of doing it right, which would have been so simple, they destroyed $5 billion in capital. Even right here, in SI, the wacko, eccentric, idea of a NUN was pretty much dismissed out of hand. Now though, even neocons are starting to look a little nervous and wondering whether some international scope might not be a Good Thing. On their terms of course as they KNOW the UN is a load of nonsense and the Arabian Nights, pre WWI alliance style of world is the way to run a railroad, despite the horrendous outcomes of such entangling alliances over the centuries.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (128694)	4/8/2004 1:22:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

BBM, in passing, here's another eccentric idea, which will be dismissed out of hand. It amazes me that ideas which I ponder for weeks, months and even years, without finding show-stoppers, can be dismissed in an instant by people without hearing the end of the senten Citizenships as tradable commodities, complete with ticker symb Stupid, wacko and eccentric eh? But it still makes sense to me. Mqurice PS: It would be fun to watch the ticker symbol as some government authority comes up with a new law or policy. The public would take a LOT more interest in citizenship if their value was going down the gurgler, right there in real-time. Some would even start voting. Good countries could make real money by selling new citizenships. At a guess, I'd say a NZ citizenship [for say 10,000 new issues a year] would be worth about US$1 million. It would be fun to see which countries had most value. Which would be top dog? I guess it would be closely related to GDP per capita, but quality of life would count for a lot. Switzerland, Japan, USA, Canada, Luxembourg, Australia, would rate highly. I doubt that Nigeria would get big bids. Floating a country would be more fun than floating a currency!