People in developing countries like multinational corps, don't like trade protestors

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by yavoon
a lot of protestors are naive to what the third world needs.

As opposed to you?

[yavoon]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


As opposed to you?

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[chequita guevara]

Awwwww.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Arrian
Quick summary:

Poll results show that people in the 3rd world actually have a rather positive view of multination corporations & "globalization," and most of the opposition is in the developed West.

-Arrian

I think just about everyone already knew this. The 3rd world has a choice between grinding poverty or slightly less grinding poverty. The only reason a corporation would set up shop in most third world countries (and pay higher transportation costs, risk currency flucations, and possible political or economic instability) is because they might make more money in the long run. The protesters want to push up wages and benifets after which there would be little to know reason for Multinationals to be there.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh my god, I think you're right.

*points*

HAW HAW!

[Dinner]

Uh, you don't live in maquiladoras, you work there. Maybe one of these days I ought to drive around and take photos of some of these local hellholes, too.

Yep, Tiajuna has become a huge manufacturing center thanks to the Maquiladoras. I recall that the San Diego/Tiajuna area has become the largest televison manufacturing center in the world. 30 years ago they were all on the American side of the border and now Sony's factory in Rancho Bernardo is the only one not located in TJ.

Mostly it's now American engineers and mangers with Mexican workers.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

. . . and one day, the American engineers and managers will be gone and it will be a fully mexican staff.

[Dinner]

He points to a significant decrease in the number of the world’s extreme poor since 1980.

Is it any wonder that poverty rates started a sharp decline right after globalization really picked up steam?

Lawrence: Saddly that is most likely true. In San Diego the two big traditional industries were Aerospace and TVs. The TVs factories have moved just over the border so now the educated classes must commute to factories in Mexico and the Aerospace industry has declined to the point where we no longer have a single Air Craft Factory in town just suppliers and things like satalite or missile factories.

It's really kind of sad. We in San Diego built the first plane to fly across the Atlantic, we built the first plane to fly across the Pacific, we built the rockets which took man to the moon, and now we don't build much of anything any more.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Yep, Tiajuna has become a huge manufacturing center thanks to the Maquiladoras. I recall that the San Diego/Tiajuna area has become the largest televison manufacturing center in the world. 30 years ago they were all on the American side of the border and now Sony's factory in Rancho Bernardo is the only one not located in TJ.

Mostly it's now American engineers and mangers with Mexican workers.

Don't forget the Koreans and Japanese. Samsung, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi and many others have a huge presence here, not just for TV's but for other consumer electronics and component assembly as well. Belkin, the computer cables and connectors and miscellaneous gewgaws company, has a large plant here halfway between the Rio zone (more or less downtown) and the airport out on Mesa de Otay.

[Dinner]

As I recall the city of San Diego tried to lure companies to set up factories in Otey Mesa and it worked. The only thing is they set up on the Mexican side of the Mesa and not the American side.

Still most of the management jobs end up in San Diego as does most of the engineering, banking, accounting, and what not.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Actually, there's a fair amount of stuff over in Otay Mesa, but it's more commerce related than heavy manufacturing. As of 2000, when I was doing some work on projects there, the bare dirt graded pad cost was around $8.00 per square foot, which is a fairly steep amount for industrially zoned property with limited utility access, off the beaten path for workers and support services, and a state prison (Donovan), long-term county jail facility (Bailey), and a bunch of junkyards for your area neighbors.

[Agathon]

The basic argument of the protestors is not anti-globalisation, it is more like "no globalisation without representation". For some reason they continually get misrepresented in the press.

In other words they are opposed to entities like the IMF and WTO that make economic decisions without any real democratic accountability. What's so weird about that? Only the right wing loons who want to destroy all government would think that's a bad thing.