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That seems like an oversimplified and overly polarized view. What about reductions in global shipping costs and opportunity for smaller businesses to serve a mu
by sxg 8y ago
That seems like an oversimplified and overly polarized view. What about reductions in global shipping costs and opportunity for smaller businesses to serve a much larger market? Both of those provide benefits for those in the middle and bottom. In the last few decades, many developing countries have grown and benefited from globalization.
Globalization is a passive and inevitable process resulting from the constant pressure on businesses to grow and serve more and more people. Ascribing a moral charge to the whole idea of globalization obscures what it actually is and how it came about.
- lazyjones 8y ago> What about reductions in global shipping costs and opportunity for smaller businesses to serve a much larger market? These smaller businesses are the „top 1%“. And the reductions in shipping costs have had a huge negative impact on the environment (i.e. all of us) and actual small local producers. In these developing countries you mention, it‘s also the „1%“ who benefited. The rest are working in cobalt mines etc. ...
- SamReidHughes 8y agoWhich countries are you talking about, and how has their median income changed over the past two decades?