[PASSED] Financial and Economic Education

[Araraukar]

Are you implying that socialist nations are illegal under international law?

OOC: Not illegal, you just have to jump through some extra hoops and put up with some whining from people who don't care much about roleplaying. The patent thing is easy enough to solve: just don't trade with the patent holder and put the would-be-patentable stuff in free-to-access database. Or ask some more advanced nation (where any such patents would have lapsed ages ago and are now common knowledge) to fork over the data. You might need to pay a one-time fee but will be free of the patent issue then. (For RL reference, imagine some nation somewhere only now inventing the lightbulb. The tech has been common knowledge for a very long time, so you giving the info you can basically find in Wikipedia, to another nation in similar stage of advancement as the patentee, wouldn't be that big an effort to you. You might have to send it printed out and could ask them to cover the postal costs.)

[Kenmoria]

(OOC: Besides, the question of whether or not socialist nations can function in the GA is a moot point with regards to this proposal, since no aspects of the required education are specific to a certain ideology.)

[Tauride]

I'm surprised at this "Financial and Economic Education" proposal. It actually makes perfect sense for capitalist countries, with their ethical individualism and their massive bureaucratic institutions, both public and private, but not for those nations which intend to depart from that road. In the case of Tauride, for instance, it is a socialist country devoted to degrowth economics, agroecological ruralization and community-based cooperativism, and therefore most of the provisions of this proposal are not only useless for us, but actually harmful. It is just not true that such provisions are "neutral" and "very broad": they imply an agenda. In other words, I think that this proposal leads to the imposition of unduly disruptive measures on those WA nations which are seeking alternatives to the ruinous capitalist system.

I beg you to reconsider your vote, and leave those matters in the hands of each individual nation.

[Kenmoria]

I'm surprised at this "Financial and Economic Education" proposal. It actually makes perfect sense for capitalist countries, with their ethical individualism and their massive bureaucratic institutions, both public and private, but not for those nations which intend to depart from that road. In the case of Tauride, for instance, it is a socialist country devoted to degrowth economics, agroecological ruralization and community-based cooperativism, and therefore most of the provisions of this proposal are not only useless for us, but actually harmful. It is just not true that such provisions are "neutral" and "very broad": they imply an agenda. In other words, I think that this proposal leads to the imposition of unduly disruptive measures on those WA nations which are seeking alternatives to the ruinous capitalist system.

I beg you to reconsider your vote, and leave those matters in the hands of each individual nation.

(OOC: I'm not sure how you could consider education to be harmful. Could you elaborate?)

[Creslonia]

"Quite possibly one of the best General Assembly proposals that I have seen in a long time. Creslonia values practical education, and our vote will reflect this. Creslonia will be voting for this resolution."
- Alexander Finch, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
2 Creslon Square,
Creslon City, East Island,
Republic of Creslonia

[WayNeacTia]

"Could there possibly be anything much further from an international issue than this? So the WA has now mandated nations teach their people Life Management courses. Seems a tad unnecessary if you ask me."

Wayne

[Separatist Peoples]

"Could there possibly be anything much further from an international issue than this? So the WA has now mandated nations teach their people Life Management courses. Seems a tad unnecessary if you ask me."

Wayne

"If you'd been here to see some delegation's flat refusal to support proposals because they didn't understand basic finance terms, its possible that you'd see the wider failure in the membership here. Though, I suppose a requirement to 'bloody well look it up' would also have worked."

[Arachkya]

"I can not belireve this passed, though our government is not spending a single Callah on this"

-Statement from the Government of Arachkya-

[Kenmoria]

Financial and Economic Education was passed 11,435 votes to 2,185.

"I can not belireve this passed, though our government is not spending a single Callah on this"

-Statement from the Government of Arachkya-

(OOC: If you don’t spend a single Callah on this, then you will be fined many times more Callahs by the Compliance Commission, according to the Administrative Compliance Act. Also, it’s considered poor form to blindly commit to noncompliance in these forums, without proper roleplaying of effects.)