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Topic | What's the problem with globalism again? |
Zeus 11/13/18 11:27:19 PM #7: | Lokarin posted... Zeus posted...Well, for starters, it enriches those at the top while devastating the most vulnerable in a society. It's not even necessarily good for the nations where the labor goes, considering that it can introduce a slew of issues into the society while giving foreign interests the power to challenge the national sovereignty (not to mention increased pollution). There are benefits as well, though, such as cheaper goods and opening up new markets. However, nations with abundant natural resources tend to do better under nationalism because the lowest rungs of their society are supported whereas globalism is terrible for low-skill and moderate-skill labor. A step down isn't the opposite >_> Otherwise I'm not sure there's a real term for it, although we've sometimes seen things like city-states (ie, cities that function as the sole government rather than acknowledging a higher power). Mead posted... It sounds exactly like our current state of capitalism Our version of "capitalism" is globalist in nature but, more importantly, it's not all that capitalistic since it relies heavily on the government. Under a capitalist system, industries would simply fail instead of getting bailouts. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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