I'm intrigued when people say that the world economy is not a zero sum game, and that jobs going overseas do not hurt us and are in fact a matter of us exploiting the people we give our jobs to. So far, the ones that have said that here have offered nothing to back it up but optimism (driven by a sappy liberalism) and fear of the alternative and magical thinking, i.e. wish fulfillment (my, my, it's unthinkable the first world might collapse so I will say it cannot). If it is not a zero sum game, and everyone can be rich, I would really like to know the economic basis for that claim. You don't have to have an advanced economics degree as I do to answer this question, but I'd like to see more than "I imagine people in poorer nations work harder and would give us all better productivity," or "the people who run the world wouldn't let first world economies collapse" (actual answers from other questions).
2007-01-18
05:33:03
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Benji
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