Globalization is the Problem not the Answer

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IMO, globalization is temporary as it is utterly dependent on cheap oil. Without cheap oil it just doesn’t work.

We may have an oil price reprieve right now, but those ugly prices from this summer will be back.
 
For some things it can be very good. Food being one of the things that should be world wide. Globalization just shifts the jobs back and forth as prices rise and fall. Globalization also allows other governments to then place restrictions and moral obligations on the countries that they trade with (the UN is an example)

IMHO no country should become so dependent on the worlds multiple governments or the UN so as not to be able to produce the majority of its needs. Production of basic needs means the ability to be independent. The USA no longer produces much except very big and expensive cars, trucks and vans.
 
Globalization is the means through which we achieve economic justice. It allows the resources of the world to be more equitably distributed than existed in the past, without artificial wealth redistribution.
 
Good post on the blog 😃
I strongly believe neo-liberalism and globalisation to be the problem. It has only widened the global rich-poor divide. Fair trade over free trade.
 
Blaming globalisation is not focussing on the root cause.

Globalisation opens markets and consequently opportunities for wider trade.

Immoral practices such as slave labour and manipulation of positions of power negate benefits of the domestic and global markets.

Effective, efficient businesses cannot compete against those using underpaid labour, unfairly leading to their demise. The owners and managers of those using slave labour in all probability do not enjoy lower incomes.

People in positions of influence often abuse that privilege in acts such as insider trading or collusion with others to undeservedly benefit their cohorts.

The global market is just the environment for trade and not the cause of economic problems.

Immorality has always pervailed wherever people allowed it even in domestic markets.
 
Dale quote: “Globalization is the means through which we achieve economic justice.”

I do not equate helping the poor in any/all societies with ‘economic justice’. From a religious view, it is charity… and when the ‘Robin Hoods’ of the countries ‘enforce’ it, charity is lost because of the mandate through taxation. Also, there are different classes of poor. (Having volunteered at a food shelf, I have seen people come in for their share of food driving 50K SUV’s and wearing leather coats… things I cannot afford, and I buy my own food). With this concept, every class has it’s poor, it just depends on how deep in debt one is with all the things they have and want. Also, my charity has been abused by a sister-in-law who was so financially strapped that I drove her to most places she had to go for some 3 years for free… after which she bought herself a nice 40k BMG (cash), and I was not good enough to even go for a ride in it.

So, who decides who needs help? And is it ‘justice’ to encourage ‘envy’ or ‘greed’ or economic ‘gluttony’? As if, if everyone had the same around the world all theft would cease. Envy would vanish. I think not. The human would still be human with all the good and bad that that entails. Equality is not equal as seen from the eye’s of numerous beholders.

Can any leader be totally un-bias? Can anyone seeking votes be totally fair? (Power corrupts) As far as I see it, only God can/is!
 
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