Globalization
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- docpoz
Globalization and the "world economy".
Are you guys/gals for it? Against it?
Do you think it is inevitable that the world will become a nationless, borderless utopia of free-trade?
Diversity represented in little pockets of a city like stores in a mini-mall?
Does globalization hinder or help your business-plan?
Thanks for reading.
- hotroddy0
1. It's already happened with WTO, NAFTA, EU and to lesser regional free trade blocks like Mercosur etc.
2. I'm for it but it does have many negatives for manufacturing jobs in the US and other industrialized nations. Manufacturing jobs built the middle class. Now it's building the middle class for coutries abroad. I don't value an american job any more than an indian job so I don't mind.
3. I don't think it helpds w diversity as I think most jobs are off-shored rather than imported.
4. we are lucky that designers aren't being replaced by cheap foreign labour. Cheap Software solutions seems to be my biggest competitor.
- PonyBoy2
Depends on who's 'in charge'.
- youngdesigner1
I'm generally in favor of it but if it all goes to shit I'll be the first to leave.
- hans_glib5
if it means we all learn to get along and co-operate then i'm all for it.
if it means we all have to become homogenised and lose what makes us different (and therefore interesting) then i'm against it
- <detritus
- are humans even capable of embracing diversity and people that are "different"?inteliboy
- Yes, we are capable. But it's not gonna happen.ORAZAL
- all glued together with fake sentimentality of living in peace and harmony, senile smiles, snorting and chewing snotdrgs
- if it wasnt for peer pressure, everyone would rather spit eachother in the face on first occasiondrgs
- ^ pre-school thug life?ORAZAL
- lol at drgs.inteliboy
- georgesIII2
I'm 100% for globalization,
but the problem is the model we use on this planet will never work,
it can not work because of the way we socially interact with each other + our corporate overlordsthere are solutions but they will take at least one to two generations to actually work,
TLDR;
globalisation isn't bad per se, it's the corporate control over globalization which is killing us!- <inteliboy
- I keep reading more about internationalism. Is that a better phrase? Or does it mean something completely different?Ianbolton
- And surely corporate control is offset from capitalism?Ianbolton
- upvotedApeRobot
- nope, internationalism has been equated with corporatism because they are currently the only one having access to the entire world ressources,georgesIII
- ORAZAL0
orazal is for the people, the people are not for orazal.
- trooperbill1
Yes but everyone has to subscribe to it all at once and the rules have to be uniform and enforced the same in every country.
i wonder how pigmy tribesmen in darkest peru would take to this?
- Pigmy tribesmen in Perú?
Globalization at its finest!ORAZAL - ^this. come on trooperbill... don't be ignantsarahfailin
- Pigmy tribesmen in Perú?
- IRNlun62
I'm against it. Without a globally accepted government, created by free people with respect for their rights, humans are devalued to nothing more than a number on a balance sheet of efficiency and lower cost.
Globalization destroyed the collective power of American manufacturing, de-values human and environmental rights, and circumvents responsibility and accountability.
What good is there in raising the economy of impoverished nations when their values are shit? How sound is it to grant economic power to nations who not only repress their people but actively promote repressive ideologies?
I'm all for unrestrictive, open trade, but not if it leaves us at the mercy of the next best deal for nationless corporate entities only beholden to expanding their own wealth and power.
- yep, globalization works, but not on this planet :/georgesIII
- This thread gave me a neckbeard.ORAZAL
- ha, ok fair... it's been a long weekIRNlun6
- formed2
Globalization just means more of everything - more economic prosperity, more business/education opportunities, more corporate power/greed, more terrorism.
Until there's an effective way to deal with repressive regimes, corporate power/greed and religious extremism the effects will just continue to magnify.
What I worry about...technology, news, media, corporate power/greed, terrorism continues to set the bar higher and higher, so we have a few with far more money and power, we have extremists that continue to push to do more damage each time.
I a more scared of how technology puts single ideas in the minds of millions, billions, instantaneously.
Look at the video with the facial recognition/manipulation...that could start WWIII or at least cause a lot of death and disruption. Simple things can cause wide spread damage and death.
- PeterPancake1
- next tip, please...docpoz
- Good timesformed
- ^ yephelloeatbreathedrive
- PeterPancake0
Micheal Sandel hosts a massive skype chat about this sort of thing; kicked off yesterday. It's BBC but you can watch it anywhere (global):
- I can't spell MichaelPeterPancake
- It's okay Peta.utopian
- ^:) ..well, at least i know how to spell globilisation, which is pretty ironic in itselfPeterPancake
- sarahfailin0
it's an unavoidable result of increased transportation and improved communication.
globalization isn't just trade, it's also communication and sharing of cultures and information.
the trade problem allows us to externalize the negative effects of getting what we want. other people pay the human and environmental costs of us having our metals, woods, foods and energy.
nice to see there's no neo-liberals here who think that globalization is a great thing and we just have to 'develop' all the countries and then we'll all be like America...
- worked well for the myans/incans/native americanstrooperbill
- sted1
Globalization is one giant penis developed by humans fucking every single organism on the planet in all holes at the same time.
- shapesalad0
I think there's an alternative movement forming that is moving away from the principles of Globalization. If you look at Brexit, Italy's recent political direction, China's posturing, Trumps trade war etc etc... It's as if countries are pulling up their drawbridges.
You're see decisions being made that are in one perspective counter to the ideals of Globalization - which would be free trade, free movement etc.
I think simply, globalization can work up to a measure, needs monitoring and regulations, otherwise it's a free for all on who can be the richest at everyone else's cost.
- the problem is a lack of equality which makes a mockery of it. if everyone was paid/educated/suppor... same standard it would work. at the moment it doesnt.trooperbill
- Money and power, money and power, always why things happenformed