Movie About Globalization

[DRoseDARs]

4th thread in 24 hours

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Hey! That's not froth in my mouth!

What, you mean you've just returned from Jaguar's?

Kids these days

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Narz
Ok, my thoughts are that globalization thrives on inequality and should be much more regulated than it is now. Trade within nations should be less regulated.

I posted the video because I found it interesting (although somewhat short on answers and a bit overblown in terms of scare-tactics about global warming).

There is no way to develop the third world without increasing trade and investment. That means globalization including off shoring of businesses.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Hey! That's not froth in my mouth!

So many ways THAT statement could go wrong...

[Kuciwalker]

I'm self-

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm torn on globalization. On the one hand, France and the rest of Europe is becoming more and more irrelevant as America pulls farther ahead of us and countries in Asia catch up to and surpass us. I obviously don't like this. On the other hand, we probably deserve it and this kind of competition is the only thing that has a chance of forcing us to reform our inefficient economies. It's probably a good thing on the whole, even if we are currently the losers of the globalizing world..

[Dinner]

BTW I just finished watching the video in the OP and I wasn't impressed. A lot of unbacked claims ("there are more humans then the Earth can support") and a lot of whining but not a single answer or solution. In short, worthless.

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
4th thread in 24 hours

Indeed. Why is Heresson banned while this blatant rule-breaker is still free?

[Dinner]

I'm rather offended by the video's claim that people who are for globalization are racist. I say the people who want to prevent poor people gaining wealth via globalization are the racist ones. That the idiots in the film attempt to claim that capitalism wants people to be poor (so that they can exploit them) is also rubbish. This is just a bunch of communist rhetoric and opinions without any facts or reasoned argumentation to back up their (rather stupid) positions.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Indeed. Why is Heresson banned while this blatant rule-breaker is still free?

Sexual favors being traded, perhaps?

[Narz]

Originally posted by Oerdin

There is no way to develop the third world without increasing trade and investment.

Depends what you mean by "develop". Most nations that are "3rd world" today we're doing fine before they were forced to participate in the global marketplace a few hundred years ago.

Originally posted by Oerdin
BTW I just finished watching the video in the OP and I wasn't impressed. A lot of unbacked claims ("there are more humans then the Earth can support") and a lot of whining but not a single answer or solution. In short, worthless.

I wouldn't call it worthless and I agree there are too many damn people but I agree there wasn't enough focus on a solution (just a bunch of talk about how we shouldn't be too pessimistic).

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Indeed. Why is Heresson banned while this blatant rule-breaker is still free?

There's a rule that says you can't start more than one thread at once?

You guys got to lighten up.

[Dinner]

Narz, compare the standard of living, calories eaten, amount of material goods, life expectancy, etc... and you will see they are actually much better off even in most of the world's poorest countries. This is how standards of living improve.

[Drake Tungsten]

There's a rule that says you can't start more than one thread at once?

No, there's a rule that you can only start two threads per day. It prevents people like you from cluttering up the front page of the OT with uninteresting threads...

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten


Indeed. Why is Heresson banned while this blatant rule-breaker is still free?

"Why" indeed

[Dinner]

Drake, resist the urge to be yourself. Instead pretend you are a nice person and stop bashing the new guy.

In any event poly should have a more easily found faq so that new people can easily learn rules.