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Two macro-issues in my view, have caused the rise of what could be called "illiberal" tenancies. 1- The gains of globalization have not been equality distribut
by 40acres 7y ago
Two macro-issues in my view, have caused the rise of what could be called "illiberal" tenancies.
1- The gains of globalization have not been equality distributed, we see this in rural France & England, along with the mid-west USA. Among the biggest losers of globalization have been the rural areas of advanced economies, rural areas are not as dynamic as cities and thus need more government support to keep pace.
2- The world's boundaries are still messed up. There is very little territorial dispute among advanced economies, but the developing world is dealing with a crisis caused by the poorly drawn maps of imperial governments (and the allies) post WWII. The Partition of India and Mandate on Palestine are the two biggest examples, but Africa struggles mightily with this as well. In the past 20 years 4 new countries have been born, we still have a way to go before reaching equilibrium.
Climate change is the kindle that has arguably already started the next major global conflict. It's only going to exacerbate the aforementioned points.
- atoav 7y agoI have another one to add: after the collapse of the Soviet Union the capitalism of the west no longer had to make the social and humanistic concessions like back when there was something that was preceived as a real competing system. The time after the Berlin wall fell is one of neo liberalism, privatizations, destruction of civil and social rights etc. And my thesis is, that this is not just by accident but due to a lack of competition in the systemic field. The autocratic systems that called themselves socialist turned out to be so elitist and corrupt in their core that people are so afraid of going anywhere near it they will go full circle and come back on the other side. In the US even centrist social democrats are labled socialists, people we Europeans would call a moderate conservative..
- andrenth 7y agoWhich civil and social rights have been lost since 1989?
- AvocadoPanic 7y agoShouldn't the developing world embrace the diversity the Imperial governments had the forethought to design into the boundaries. It could be their greatest strength.
- Litmus2336 7y agolmao There are so many things wrong with this comment, but I think the most egregious is assuming the Imperial governments had any plans going into country creation other than getting natural resources and weakening their foes.