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Globalism was and is always sold as a good idea.

• meroes 3y ago
  My 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 ago
    That'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 ago
      There is no "they" conspiring to convince "us" that globalism is the way to go.
      • themaninthedark 3y ago
        Please 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 ago
        There never is.