[extropy-chat] Re: The benefits of more citizenships

[Al Brooks]

None of the below NECESSARILY means you are going to
live a longer or better life. Your life might be more
complicated, but not necessarily better.
most important milestones, by far:
leaving parents at 18 (or nowadays much later-- like,
say, when parents die);
 being uploaded;
 being suspended; 
 being reanimated,


> if you can have (government-funded) medical care
> if you can have (government-funded) education
> if you can change jobs
> if you can have your family with you
> if you can adopt
> if you can legally travel in and out of the country
> if you can have a bank account
> if you can own a car
> if you can have a driver's license
> if you can own property
> if you can have a telephone
> if you can have a residency and hence, lower-cost
> utilities:
> phone, electricity, gas, etc. charges
> if you can vote
> if you can hold  a political office
> 
> These are just a few that I thought up in 30
> seconds, I'm
> sure that there are more, and my list will have
> variations between what I'm familiar with in
> Italy/Germany and what immigrants face in the U.S.
> 
> I say the more citizenships the better. That way
> national
> bounderies disappear and humans' behavior befits
> that of
> a global human. Nationalistic boundaries mostly
> create
> impediments to our (humans') growth. 
> 
> Amara
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