How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
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Re: How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
#2Sounds like more governments around the world could use a dose of layer cake Federalism.
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#3The corporation takes away personal responsibility. For a corporation profit is usually number one priority far more than caring for the environmen.
I think globalisation under mines union, to some extent labour laws. I you don’t do the job there is often someone cheaper who don’t care about work hours, vacation who will.
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#4Multi-national corporations are counting on the disparity to essentially play arbitrage with labour. Nationalism feeds into that, so it's in their interest to stoke nationalist sentiments.
Re: How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
#5The corporation takes away personal responsibility. For a corporation profit is usually number one priority far more than caring for the environmen. I think globalisation under mines union, to some extent labour laws. I you don’t do the job there is often someone cheaper who don’t care about work hours, vacation who will.
And environmental protection laws, and human rights laws, and civil rights laws, you name it, globalization has effectively undermined.
The best lie that America ever told the world (best exemplified by the 1939 World’s Fair[1]) was that democracy and capitalism go hand in hand. But when the U.S. blinked after the 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre and kept on buying cheap goods from China, it became clear that the Western world - the only long term bastion of democracy - cared more about capitalism than democracy, and China showed the world that you don’t need democracy for capitalism. Democracy has been in decline ever since, along with human rights.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_New_York_World's_Fair
Re: How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
#6Sounds like more governments around the world could use a dose of layer cake Federalism.
Could you explicit or ELI5 what you mean by this ? Worldwide federalism ? More intermeduary layer to better control centralized bodies ?
Re: How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
#7Sounds like more governments around the world could use a dose of layer cake Federalism.
Could you explicit or ELI5 what you mean by this ? Worldwide federalism ? More intermeduary layer to better control centralized bodies ?
The idea behind layer cake federalism is you define specific scope that gets handled at different levels of Government; the point being that people in Estonia may not want the same policies as those in France and both should be free to choose independent of a globalized body (here, the UN).
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#8Multi-national corporations are counting on the disparity to essentially play arbitrage with labour. Nationalism feeds into that, so it's in their interest to stoke nationalist sentiments.
Wait what? Are you claiming that corporations deign for some countries to become dumping grounds? I'm not sure what you mean here. The article hints at the fact that while standards of living increase for some, they decrease for others... Which is essentially the complaint that anti-globalization activists have. It's not a rising tide but a race to the bottom.
Most corporations (I can't think of any counter examples, but maybe someone here will find one) are all on board with abolishing borders. It makes the most sense from the POV of a capitalistic institution since it drives down wages and increases efficiency much more than strong national borders and "nationalism" would. (Wouldn't your local tech giant like an unlimited supply of work visas to pass out like candy?)
It seems to me that open borders and pro-globalization activists are mostly playing right into the wildest dreams of corporate robber barons. Who prefer the "race to the bottom" WRT labor costs that is "globalism."
Re: How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
#9The corporation takes away personal responsibility. For a corporation profit is usually number one priority far more than caring for the environmen. I think globalisation under mines union, to some extent labour laws. I you don’t do the job there is often someone cheaper who don’t care about work hours, vacation who will.
And environmental protection laws, and human rights laws, and civil rights laws, you name it, globalization has effectively undermined. The best lie that America ever told the world (best exemplified by the 1939 World’s Fair[1]) was that democracy and capitalism go hand in hand. But when the U.S. blinked after the 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre and kept on buying cheap goods from China, it became clear that the Weste…
Not sure why you’ve been downvoted. History from the 1990s onwards seemed to demonstrate that past a certain point, democracy becomes an obstacle which Capitalism has to overcome or devolve into crisis. If anything, the US is hemming more towards the authoritarian technocracy of China than away from it.
Re: How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
#10Multi-national corporations are counting on the disparity to essentially play arbitrage with labour. Nationalism feeds into that, so it's in their interest to stoke nationalist sentiments.
> Nationalism feeds into that
How?