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Globalization is just a new name for a very old process. It started long before Vasco da Gama started European Imperialism in 1497. It had some very bad moments
by diego_moita 9y ago
Globalization is just a new name for a very old process. It started long before Vasco da Gama started European Imperialism in 1497. It had some very bad moments before (e.g.: Great Depression) but it never stopped and will not stop.
What drives globalization isn't the WTO, the Davos elites or evil capitalists. It is technology: steam ships, refrigeration, containers in ports, telecommunications, etc.
Other technologies will come and will accelerate this process. We will surely go beyond "global supply chains", regardless of what orange demagogues think of it.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI agree. Globalization is what happens when, thanks to technological progress, you can no longer ignore entities on the other end of the planet. Technology is an enabler - once you make a new thing possible, people will do it. You can try and oppose this process, but it's expensive and probably always doomed to failure anyway. China is a case in point - all that government effort and they still ended up pretty westernized today. To stop globalization, one would have to revert the entire planet to before industrial revolution. Which is entirely possible with e.g. nuclear weapons, but I don't think anyone sane would want that to happen.
- ChemicalWarfare 9y agoGlobalization has many aspects. The job outsourcing aspect of it can absolutely be controlled to the point of stopping it for all intents and purposes.