There has been a long term movement to tie countries together through treaties or directly combining countries into larger groups. This has a great benefit that no one is talking about. The fewer governing bodies there are the less money corporation have to spend influencing decisions. This is great for the corporate bottom line and will help increase profits.
For example, before the European Union if a company wanted to influence an outcome in France and Italy they would have to give donations, pay lobbyists and create fake groups to simulate 'public' discussion in Italy and France. Now they just have to deal with people in Brussels to create policy in their favour. That is a great reduction in cost. There is half the number of politicians to deal with.
The other advantage is that larger groups diminish the power of the individual. The population of Italy is about 60 million. The population of Europe is about 800 million. Prior to the EU the influence of a person in Italy over policies affecting Italy was roughly 1/60 million. Now it is 1/800 million. That is significantly less influence over the creation of policies that affect Italy than before. This greatly reduces the value of democracy and enhances the value of lobbying the central government.
Another advantage is that centralized power increases the power of elected officials. This in turn increases the influence obtained per dollar spent in obtaining influence. That is greater value for money for the corporations. This in turn will help create policies that benefit the companies while reducing the cost of obtaining the results.
Imagine if there was only one world government. That would be even better for businesses.
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