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Globalization certainly, to the degree that the United States has pushed and opened borders, absolutely. To the degree that pseudo-communistic countries have re
by InTheArena 4y ago
Globalization certainly, to the degree that the United States has pushed and opened borders, absolutely. To the degree that pseudo-communistic countries have reformed their legal systems to respect the rule of law and property, that has little to do with the United States.
The guy who can't get a lifetime job at a shirt factory, steelworks, or software job in the USA also "paid" for this.
- quicklime 4y agoThe global economy is not a zero sum game, and globalisation worked well for the USA as a whole. Americans just didn’t share that newfound wealth with the lower classes as well as India did.
- InTheArena 4y agoActually, multiple studies have shown that yes, while some did get richer in the USA, the cost of globalization - worldwide - was mainly born by the middle class. People in poverty received governmental assistance. And as someone who is in India frequently, the idea that newfound wealth was shared as a deliberate policy mechanism with lower classes is somewhat ... discredited. I believe in globalization - but the US government should have done a better job helping people with it's impacts, and the developed world should stop pretending that there was no cost to others to make it happen.