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(Wheelan 201)The implicit message of the antiglobalization protests is that we in the developed world somehow know what is best for people in poor countries - where they ought to work and even what kind of restaurants they ought to eat in.
Globalization is helping millions get out of poverty. Those "sweatshops" that everyone complains about offer oppurtunity and safety that local industries can't support right now, and outsourcing hasn't hurt America as much as the unions will tell you. From the 1990s to the beginning of the current recession, more jobs have been created than lost and wages have gone up across the board in the US
If anything, with this recession, wages have decreased and/or jobs completely lost. And where are these new jobs being created? Usually in sectors where manufacturing workers have no access to training or education. That is great for the kid right out of college, but the guy who manufactured socks for 25-years is going to have a tougher time.
Do you think globalization is a good thing?
Our economy is moving away from manufacturing into a more service based economy. This isn't a bad thing. Imagine if agricultuture remained the main component of our economy. Do I have to mention wages and unemployment again?
Its a very bad thing my friend.
Also Agriculture is one of our biggest exports.
Please elaborateIts a very bad thing my friend.
Also Agriculture is one of our biggest exports.
Care to elaborate on why it's bad for us?
Our economy isn't based on it
Our economy is moving away from manufacturing into a more service based economy. This isn't a bad thing. Imagine if agricultuture remained the main component of our economy. Do I have to mention wages and unemployment again?
No, it's an extraordinarily bad thing, the United States really doesn't produce or export much these days, our trade deficits are horrendous. There was a time when we produced the best in the world of a lot of products, today we import just about everything. A purely consumer-based society doesn't grow, it doesn't improve, it doesn't compete, it just consumes. Until we get back to actually being a first-world nation that makes products the rest of the world wants, we'll continue to sink, our economy contracting until we're utterly irrelevant.
It is bad for us because manufacturing creates long term jobs and security. Service jobs are outsourced to india or insourced from Mexico. Service jobs depend on cheap products from other nations, and thus will be severly hurt by any price fluctutions. I am not saying we should be China, but we should make sure our economy is multiversed (No Eggs in one basket). The US policy should be one that protects our workers, and our business's. free global economy does not help us at all, it helps large international corporations and 3rd world countries.
Surely not, but it is an important factor so is manufacturing.
And some manufacturing will stay with us as well. Such as electroics and car manufacturing.
Except we haven't been sinking until the recession
You mean the electronics industry that's largely gone to Japan and Taiwan and the car manufacturing that's gone to Japan, Korea and some parts of Europe? The car manufacturing that's going belly up right now?
Yeah, those industries are doing really well in the United States. :roll:
Of course we have, where have you been? The U.S. auto industry has been in the dumper since the 70s, Detroit, once Motor City, is a virtual ghost town. Ford, GM and Chrysler have all bought into the "build crappy cars that fall apart so that people buy new cars more often" model and that's what allowed foreign builders like Toyota and Honda to make such massive inroads into the marketplace. We sold out, they didn't, now that we're finally figuring out our lesson, it's too late and most people won't buy American cars no matter what they do.
The same is true of most other industries. There's virtually nothing where we lead the world in quality anymore. We sold our proverbial soul for cheap Chinese crap and low-paying overseas jobs.
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