afterthought:  large scale finance capitalism certainly adds to this problem as we repeatedly see the argument that maximising the return for shareholders scattered all over Country A is a "greater good for greater number" and trumps the local rights of indigenes, pastoralists, subsistence farmers etc.  there's a serious modelling problem for democracy when investors provide the aegis for corporations whose "externalised" costs are inflicted not merely hundreds but thousands of miles away, under a whole different government and legal system...

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