What moral attitude should we take toward Globalism?
From the American workers view the positive side of Globalism is that many workers worldwide in very poor countries will experience a significant increase in their standard of living because the manufacturing of certain products that were manufactured in America are manufactured in their country.
From the American workers view the negative side of Globalism is that the standard of living of many Americans will decline significantly because of the work that has gone to poor countries.
From the American capital owning and financial brokerage view Globalism is the best thing since sliced bread.
What moral judgment should all Americans take toward Globalism? I have no answers to this very difficult question. This is the type of question that leads some people, like me, to duck their moral principles.
I suspect that Americans with capital will reap great advantage from Globalism but working Americans will be net losers. The workers and the capital owning citizens in poor countries will be large net winners.
Globalism shmobalism. Does anyone here remember reading about the mercantile system in american history? Does anyone know about global trade in late medieval times? Does anyone know about the Roman Empire? Does anyone understand that, for twenty or thirty years after WWII, the US was in a unique and unrepeatable position in the world economy? Does anyone remember “cheap Japanese goods”? Or “Made in Taiwan”? Or anything about the economic history of the world?
“Globalism” is a catch-phrase of an outmoded union system, of the Democratic party, and of a liberal media. Or of anyone who seeks to pander to a populist sentiment among the american middle class. Globalism is a sham. We have been globalising at least since Marco Polo - but really since long before.
A moral stance?
No one really has one. In the last twenty or so years, american consumers have had a choice. Buy the american-made item, or the asian-made item. This didn’t happen overnight. It was a process. Many stores, and particularly catalogs, used to feature “made in the USA” stickers and notices on those items that were still made here. It didn’t matter. Entire industries did not go offshore all in the same day. No one cares. Americans have consistently gone for the cheaper item, all else being equal. There is no moral component - there is only politics.
Perhaps the first established issue should be the state of nature. Is globalization (todays brand) win/lose or win/win or lose/lose?
How we should behave in a win/win could be vastly different than win/lose.
A wild out-there idea.
What if you were transported in time and saw a textbook for economic history of 2080. In this book in the year 2030 people no longer lived in states. They lived in corporations, who took control of services. AKA what might have occured before ala- the Church. Maybe a showdown is on the horizon??
Prayer begins on Monday at 8 and ends Friday at 5. lol
Although it would be interesting to critique globalism considering that all ideals extend from the absurd and with the word global attached to this particular ideal I imagine it would make interesting conversation.
When I describe things as absurd and insane I usually describe situations or actions that have little to no relevance with the natural order of things.
Joe Nye, former Dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, informs us: Globalism describes the existence of various forms of networks that interconnect multi-continental distances while globalization describes the degree of globalism. In short, Nye considers “Globalism as the underlying basic network, while globalization refers to the dynamic shrinking of distance on a large scaleâ€â€¦ globalization is the process by which globalism becomes increasingly thick and/or intense.
There are four distinct dimensions of globalism: economic, which is the flow of goods and services; environmental, which is the effect upon the worlds environment and health; social, which is the flow of ideas and the effect of those ideas and ideologies upon the worlds cultures; and of course, there is the military dimension where power is displayed world wise by all cultures with such power.
I think globalism is not a good thing. Sorry, but It seems to allow companies to grow out of control, and dominate thw world. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer with globalism. New generations won’t have the ability to create a moderately large business because they will be crushed if they get too big. The ones before have taken up the land and the market, leaving little to do for new people but be enslaved.