Like it or not GLOBALIZATION is here to stay.

[fun n serious]

It can not be reversed. MSNBC is reporting shopping malls are closing. No one wants to buy retail. Technology has made it so we do not have to go to the mall. Hillary is the only candidate who spoke of this and she had a plan to work with silicone valley to train people into new jobs. Hillary had the best jobs plan! No one else!

[NCTraveler]

1. K&R

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12512372785

[fun n serious]

2. Thank you!

Hillary spoke about the REAL economic issues of the current state of affairs. Now Trump is talking about getting rid of h1b visas. Science engineer job creators will just leave USA and we will not be a competitor in the global economy.

[Initech]

3. Alex Jones can rail against globalization all he wants.

He's only making himself look foolish by doing so.

[fun n serious]

4. There are plenty here on DU who rail against it too. nt

[mythology]

10. Isn't that redundant?

I'm unaware of anything he does that doesn't make him look foolish.

[Hoyt]

5. Unfortunately, too many voters did not want to hear the truth or what it will take to prepare for

the inevitable future.

[cheapdate]

6. Globalization is neither inevitable, permanent, nor the natural order or progression of things.

It can expand or contract for many different reasons, including the decisions and choices people and nations make.

[fun n serious]

7. I disagree.

You can kick the can down the road some but.. It's already here and most people want it.

[haele]

8. Simply due to advances in technology, there will always be a form of Globalization.

There has been since the late 17th century - even earlier if you consider the Silk Road trade routes.
Italian craftsmen complained about Turkish or Pakistani imports undercutting their products back in the 16th century, what makes anyone think this is a new thing?
Globalization is within the natural progression of economics. First, we start out in tribal groups, then settlements, then local trading partners, then countries...and on, and on until we can go no further with the technology of the timeframe.
If we regress back to settlements and isolate ourselves, we're still impacted by Globalization, whether we choose to participate in it or not
I would say instead that Globalization will take whatever form the society chooses to give it, just as "Free Markets" have whatever form the practitioners of Free Market economies give it. The Scandinavian form of Capitalism is far different than, say, the US, Brazilian or Kenyan, or Chinese forms - whatever we think of the way they are as countries, they're still considered Capitalist.

Heck, 100/200 years from now - if we are able to progress and not blow ourselves up - we might be looking at some form of "Solar Markets" where resource extraction such as mineral, gas, and water mining is "cheaper" out in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and all those good mining jobs are off-world, so what can an Earth Miner do to compete with a Astroid Miner?

Haele

[fun n serious]

11. Exactly and I would like USA to have a seat at the table of the inevitable. nt

[delisen]

9. We can deny globalization but the bad actors are successfully using it and their

success will be our doom.

[fun n serious]

12. Yes, we would be doomed if we isolate.

Science and Engineering job creators would leave USA and we would decline economically and in intelligence while the rest of the world progresses.

[HughBeaumont]

13. Like it or not, lots of workers are going to be displaced by it.

Like it or not, nothing's going to be done about many of those workers.

Like it or not, if we don't change the way we distribute wealth, the catastrophe is going to be biblical.

If we're looking for "like it or nots".

Sorry to be defeatist, but I know how Republican corporatists are.