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If you make tangible goods or have a mortgage, you are more likely to want borders and a nation. If on the other hand you deal largely in intangibles, in information, in strings of numbers, in data on global servers and financial transactions around the world, in movies and music, in ideas, then borders are an unreal abstraction. If you get your rides from Uber, your house from Airbnb, your entertainment from Netflix and your dates from Tinder, if you don’t actually own anything, and have no plans for a family or anything more permanent than a virtual existence, who needs a nation?

I specifically remember DARPA warning about this when they decided to release the internet in the lat 70s, when the planet was overnight given touch-tone telephony. They also knew critical infrastructure - banks, electricity, aviation, defense - would glom onto the internet and put all the chips on the table for some evil entity to knock over.