fatvegan

Everyone keeps saying that globalization is bad, but we're going to have to get involved. That it's an inescapable outcome or something. I reckon that's crap. Any democracy can say no. If we voted for the Greens or Pauline Hanson we probably wouldn't get it. They'd cancel our free trade agreements and put things back the way they were after the war. Tariffs would go up. Everything we bought and sold came from Australia. It's easy. Globalization isn't a particularly hard thing to stop. If a country doesn't want it, they just say no. Cuba doesn't want it, and they don't have it. North Korea doesn't want it, and they don't either. That's not to say I think that it's a good idea to say no to it. I think globalization is tops in general. I reckon we need to be nicer about it, but I don't think poor people are going to be any worse off long term. I'd just like it if we let them get more (or even all) of the its benefits. But globalization isn't "good" or "bad" for the poor. It's neutral. If the poor were more politically active (like actually voting for someone other than the Liberals) then they'd benefit a lot more from it. It frustrates me when people in highly effective democracies say their hands are bound. That they have no control over what happens. Or that the politicians drive the agenda.

We've got an FTA with the US. If we're that sure that we don't want it, tomorrow we could cancel it. America probably wouldn't sign anymore agreements with us for a long time as a result, but we've got the option of cancelling it.

So I don't really think globalization is for chumps. I like it. But if other people don't want it, that's alright too.