Globalization?

Question

Do you agree or disagree? It's kinda general, but i want to hear.

Answer 1

eventually.. it's going to happen.. until then.. everyone will b*tch about it.

Answer 2

It does make sense, actually. A high wind blows in because a storm has just occurred, and a stick falls from a tree onto a path. A man running on the path trips over the stick, brakes his ankle, and then sets up an entire system throughout the U.S. that promotes the cleaning of pathways so other people don't trip on sticks and then break their ankles, too. Eventually, a tourist visiting the U.S. happens to notice this new rising, and when he returns home he shares it with his local council. The local council promotes the idea, and soon it spreads to other counties. This goes on as people from all around the world visit different countries, and soon everyone is doing it, even though it takes a long time. And this all started with a stick. The smallest thing can set off a chain reaction of events that ricochet around the world en masse.

Answer 3

Not today, not in this world.

If we lived where free trade was universally acceptable and practical, then ya sure since globalization would do no harm in local labor markets nor would it impose cultural imperialism.

Thing is....
we can't stand it when some stranger is making a buck which we believe to deserve. I couldn't stand it when my neighbor got $1 for washing my parents' cars as a kid which was my chore and something that went towards $2 in my allowance. Of course they'd take the excuse that they needed the job done even if I wasn't home, but still...

Anyway, I'd like to see it work like it does on paper, but in the actual world, it falls into the same trap as communism in how it just isn't pragmatic or feasible.

Answer 4

It has helped American corporations make enormous money which helps america's economy. But it allows corporations to outsource jobs...US is now a service economy and those jobs are below-average. Globalization has good and bad elements...we need to amend it, not end it. Get some economists in a room and see if they can improve globalization.

Answer 5

I don't think it is a good thing. We don't have much of an alternative though it is going to happen. I am all for going into it kicking and screaming though.

Answer 6

I agree, but it won't work. Remember the 'Tower of Babylon' from the bible. It's a metaphor: once everything is ruled under one thing, it will change and split.