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What? Was this an attempt at a jab?no it belongs in reality section. too bad we don't have one.
What? Was this an attempt at a jab?no it belongs in reality section. too bad we don't have one.
Just look at the results of this poll. It's pretty split. If nobody here can agree on free trade then the world won't be suckered into a one world government dictatorship of any sort.
Which makes the jobs of Americans a lot more dependent on such a complex international framework and large international corporations.
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.
I'm not particularly a fan of it, myself. It's seems to be leading to cultural homogeny in the West, with everything that made our own native cultures unique being watered down.
That actually is a pretty depressing prospect.
Cultures intermingle all of the time. They have been since before the invention of the sail. Globalization is just a continuation of that process. Even then, can one say that the cultures of MA and TX are completely the same?
It's a continuation that's quite different in nature, though, and of much greater scope. Whether or not that's a good thing really depends on whether or not you feel a greater aspect of homogeny between different nations and cultures is necessarily a good thing.
It's a lurch forward, but it's been happening, usually unabated, for millenia. If any good comes out of it, it might mean fewer wars over petty things like ethnicity and the like
If the whole world exists under the conditions of advanced capitalism, revolution will come more easily and win more completely.
Not really, not to the same level.Things have been reliant on on vast networks since the before the birth of capitalism.
This is not an argument because it ignores the obvious enlargement and differences I was talking about. It is simply not true that so much control of economic decisions was outside local and national control before, that is rather the point of globalisation. You seem to be saying that there is no such thing as globalisation.I'm sure that you've heard the story about the pencil. The graphite has to be mined. The machinery for that has to be made. The trees need to be cut. The ropes for this need to be made. The rubber for the erasers has to be grown. Food needs to be grown by farmers. It goes on and on.
A vast network has been around and usually growing since man first settled in groups.
Aside from the fact that the latter taken to extremes leads to the former there is too much of the 18th century liberal view of man in American style libertarianism.American style libertarianism says nothing about people being islands, just that their choices should be voluntary
This is completely a hyperbole as your idea of supply networks were. It reminds me of open border people who talk about how immigration always happens. Well yes it does and so do cultural exchanges but the point is the magnitude and rapidity, these are higher than in most periods in the past, certainly most stable periods.Cultures intermingle all of the time. They have been since before the invention of the sail. Globalization is just a continuation of that process. Even then, can one say that the cultures of MA and TX are completely the same?
I'm not particularly a fan of it, myself. It's seems to be leading to cultural homogeny in the West, with everything that made our own native cultures unique being watered down.