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Globalism wasn't "sold" as a good idea. Shareholders of companies that make tools just realized they profit more by increasing the difference between cost of pr
by shuntress 3y ago
Globalism wasn't "sold" as a good idea. Shareholders of companies that make tools just realized they profit more by increasing the difference between cost of production and final sale price.
- medion 3y agoOf course it was sold - by the means you mentioned, but also, those profits were then quickly deployed into decades long marketing strategies - which has led to a world addicted to low quality, cheap goods - an addiction we cannot be weaned off of. So much so, as the article laments, we can't even make a wrench.
- agentgumshoe 3y agoGlobalism was and is always sold as a good idea.
- meroes 3y agoMy memory is everyone just loved buying cheaper things like flatscreens. This “selling” business is made up hindsight and I hear it a lot. “Do you think globalism is a good idea”. No idea but weren’t you just at Black Friday buying $300 TVs, wear fast fashion, and buy cheap tools?
- agentgumshoe 3y agoThat's exactly the point, that's how it's sold. They don't exactly go around telling us that it's cementing centralisation of large corporations, leveraging slave/cheap labour as much as possible until caught while reducing local opportunities and knowledge, environmental impact of mass packaging and supply chains, bringing wonderful tax avoidance opportunities and flouting quality controls and regulations. But of course, blame the consumer, because it was sold with full warnings but they didn't listen ..
- shuntress 3y agoThere is no "they" conspiring to convince "us" that globalism is the way to go.
- themaninthedark 3y agoPlease ignore the demonstrations and Riots at the G8 summits and all the opposition to the free trade acts... Remember the TPP and how it was it was an amazing deal that Trump was an idiot to walk away from? Who was telling you that and why?
- agentgumshoe 3y agoThere never is.