Reply #32: When "it" happens, it will not be called "globalization" [View All]

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The word "globalization" is nothing but rich folk code for sidestepping human rights laws in one country by going to another, and playing off labor markets against one another.

This idealistic no-bad-consequences free market you think of as "globalization" is not what is actually happenning, and we are in no way set on any sort of course to make it happen. That's not the plan of people that say they are for "globalization." Yes, they tell you that is their plan, but the real plan in their own personal enrichment and empowerment.

Until you separate the concept of that which you desire from the reality of everything the term "globalization" implies, you will be just a tool of the pre-empowered.

On a second point, the idea that the best course to take is for our individual local economies to become one huge economy is also faulty, and based on the same pollyannaism that has caused trouble in just about very sector of our society. The proper, well engineered approach to a durable and sustainable system -- in any sense, not just in economics -- incorporates redundancy and exploits locality (both esoteric and, yes, emphatically, geographic as well.) Separate cooperating but not codependent economies is the only system that will survive the shocks that the future has in store for us.