Talk:Types of countries: Difference between revisions
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* A unified (say 7 or 11 level) scale is the best if it just can intuitively be used in all applicable places | * A unified (say 7 or 11 level) scale is the best if it just can intuitively be used in all applicable places | ||
::Can't agree. States and companies have very different effects on policies and production, and if they are measured differently, that must be reflected differently. It's good to END up with a unified scale, but that will be the sum or product of some other numbers. Tax rates might matter, as a country with a 33% tax rate is only getting 1/3 of the money, and with a 50% tax rate it is getting 1/2 of the money, so patronizing companies that pay taxes (or pay people to pay taxes) in a +3 state with a 33% tax rate should be maybe worth +1, the same as those paying 50% in a +2 state? Just do it exactly by the cash flows. | |||
* Multiple normalized score scales eg. pick any number between say -1.0 and 1.0 and then normalize that (or normalize other scores to that) which would likely lead to just more [[consumer]] confusion. | * Multiple normalized score scales eg. pick any number between say -1.0 and 1.0 and then normalize that (or normalize other scores to that) which would likely lead to just more [[consumer]] confusion. | ||
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:I think we shouldn't take any stance for or against any country, but rather trust the usual methods ie. [[campaigns]] in the [[Opinion Wiki]] to do that, but I see your motivation for writing this article and '''I think the subject of this article should be handled in [[Campaigns#Cascading Campaign]]''' eg. deciding how and based on what rules campaigns will or can be made to cascade if desired so. | :I think we shouldn't take any stance for or against any country, but rather trust the usual methods ie. [[campaigns]] in the [[Opinion Wiki]] to do that, but I see your motivation for writing this article and '''I think the subject of this article should be handled in [[Campaigns#Cascading Campaign]]''' eg. deciding how and based on what rules campaigns will or can be made to cascade if desired so. | ||
::States are different than companies. Types of states do matter. Many people for instance don't want to patronize [[prison labour]] or [[slave labour]] or [[child labour]], and different states have different tolerances for that. Others very strongly disapprove of weapons making or sales. | |||