I always thought that the biggest problem with the theory of Globalisation was that it somehow overlooked the globalisation of people. I think it's fine for corporations to move their operations where-ever they choose to as long as people are free to move to where-ever they want to.
There were of course, many other problems; its complete abrogation of ethical considerations, the failure, (which made communism equally unworkable,) to try to find a balance between the individual and society, its failure, shared with all empirical economic doctrines, to consider people as anything more than economic units, its disingenuous ignorance of the self-perpetuating nature of oligarchies and class-structures in any system where success is based on opportunity rather than merit, (ie:its assertion that the daughter of a Sudanese cattle herder has as much chance of economic success as the son of a corporate CEO from the Upper East Side of Manhattan,) and its underlying assumption that capital has more rights than labour,(ie:that corporations should be protected from organised industrial action, but workers should not be guaranteed a fair wage and adequate working conditions,) to name but a few.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:57 am (UTC)There were of course, many other problems; its complete abrogation of ethical considerations, the failure, (which made communism equally unworkable,) to try to find a balance between the individual and society, its failure, shared with all empirical economic doctrines, to consider people as anything more than economic units, its disingenuous ignorance of the self-perpetuating nature of oligarchies and class-structures in any system where success is based on opportunity rather than merit, (ie:its assertion that the daughter of a Sudanese cattle herder has as much chance of economic success as the son of a corporate CEO from the Upper East Side of Manhattan,) and its underlying assumption that capital has more rights than labour,(ie:that corporations should be protected from organised industrial action, but workers should not be guaranteed a fair wage and adequate working conditions,) to name but a few.
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Date: 2005-03-16 01:28 am (UTC)