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Exactly. The average citizen doesn't see much of the benefits of globalization. It mostly helps governments and companies.
by yAnonymous 10y ago
Exactly. The average citizen doesn't see much of the benefits of globalization. It mostly helps governments and companies.
- rospaya 10y agoTell that to my cheap phone made in China running an OS made by developers from around the world. My Turkish t-shirt, the Spanish tomatoes I ate this morning or the server I'm remotely setting up on the other side of the planet, so my company can sell their services there.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoAre you in the lower/working class of your country? If not, then you're not necessarily amongst those that the system works against.
- pjc50 10y agoYou benefit as a consumer, but you may lose as a worker. We end up in this strange environment where manufactured goods are very cheap compared to housing and professional non-importable services like health and education.
- majewsky 10y agoThe mere existence of globalization is not a counter-argument to the grandparent. To construct a counter-argument, you need to proof that the Turkish t-shirt and Spanish tomatoes are actually a benefit to you (or rather, to the mythical "average person").