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I wholeheartedly agree with you on almost every point and a couple you haven't mentioned. > greatest blue collared jobs/ communities destroyers in Italy, Franc
by andrewksl 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you on almost every point and a couple you haven't mentioned.
> greatest blue collared jobs/ communities destroyers in Italy, France, Spain, UK, US, Japan
But isn't this just the nature of globalization? And aren't the corporations in the countries you mentioned complicit in choosing to cut costs by moving production to cheap countries? And aren't we as consumers complicit in continuing to buy cheap goods like it's going out of fashion (wishful thinking lol).
- toomuchtodo 7y agoYes. Yes (and govs, not just corps). Yes. Hence it contributing to the worldwide rise in populism.
- nostrebored 7y agoUpskilling of a workforce isn't a bad thing.
- allovernow 7y agoIn theory, yes. But millions of middle aged blue collar workers aren't going to learn to code, so to speak.
- chrisco255 7y agoMaybe globalization is a failed experiment.
- sachdevap 7y agoNo, it isn't just globalization. It's globalization done poorly. A level playing field wrt human rights of workers across wherever companies do business should be part of a just (in a humanitarian sense) globalization.
- vkou 7y agoWhen we[1] were drafting trade policies back in the 90s and the 00s, we made zero effort to do globalization 'well'. We made a lot of effort to make sure that it was done in a way that was great for the bottom line of multinationals, though. [1] Or, more specifically, our politicians.
- sachdevap 7y agoPrecisely this. Trade negotiations by their nature are written by the winners, and until the voters wise up to this, we are doomed to repeat these mistakes.
- derg 7y agoI would argue that it was done well because of that, not in spite of that. The bottom line was the only thing that ever mattered.
- andrewksl 7y agoAbsolutely, but there don’t have to be human rights violations in order for a country with lower costs of living to be a more attractive host for manufacturing than one with a higher cost of living.