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We can’t eliminate it on a city by city, or state by state basis. How would that inequality ever be eliminated on a country by country basis?
by ed25519FUUU 3y ago
We can’t eliminate it on a city by city, or state by state basis. How would that inequality ever be eliminated on a country by country basis?
- ajmurmann 3y agoYou see it being eliminated right there in the post. Globalization is moving money to the people who are more needy by giving them the chance to earn a relative fortune by harvesting apples in NZ. It's a fabulous success! We see this all over the place. Many manufacturing jobs moved from China to cheaper places where people are more needy because so many Chinese were lifted out of poverty. The best way out of poverty is allowing globalization to continue doing this and have policies that focus on creating abundance rather than seeing the economy as a zero-sum game. At some point automation will hit a point where we must have something like UBI, but it seems like we aren't there yet.
- mikrotikker 3y agoBut the effects globalization has had on the environment has been disastrous
- aklemm 3y agoThis has to be reckoned with. Downvotes expose some kind of twisted biased I’d be curious to learn more about.
- ajmurmann 3y agoIs it globalization or industrialization? Is it inherent to globalization?
- bongoman37 3y ago[dead]
- thworp 3y agoThat really depends on where. If we say globalozation started in the 80s (which seems like a fair middle ground) then the environment in high income countries has recovered immensely. In Europe since the 80s , forest coverage has grown by something like 30%, acid rain is pretty much gone, protected areas have doubled, most big rivers are safe to swim and co2 output is going down. I think it would be great if every country had the ressources to accomplish similar things instead of deforesting because they’re poor.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoAutomation gives profit margins to owners, not free time to workers. You’re asking for charity or revolution.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoIn capitalism, capital owning individuals, companies and countries gain wealth at an exponential rate, while labor producing individuals, companies and countries gain wealth at a linear rate. In such a system, high levels of inequality is the natural state.
- ajmurmann 3y agoYes, let's kill the golden goose that makes us rich so that other people cannot get even richer and we won't get jealous. Developing countries also seem to be catching up. The gap between southeast Asian states that used to be tragically poor a few decades ago to western countries is clearly closing.