Reply #30: I don't know about that.

[LWolf]

It all hinges, for me, on fair labor practices and living wages.

In reality, a "living wage" is different even inside the U.S. borders, depending on where you live and the cost of housing, etc. in that place. Globally, it's broader.

How do you make sure that every worker, no matter where they live and work and no matter what they do, gets a living wage, safe and healthy working conditions, and reasonable work hours? Global labor standards? Global labor unions? Wages set by local cost-of-living to ensure that working can provide a decent standard of living?

I don't think that enriching our government-controlling corporations by allowing them to pay substandard wages and neglect safe working conditions in other places on the globe really sets us up for world peace.

I also don't think economic "growth" is the direction we ought to be going. Local or global, we should be looking for economic stability and sustainability that doesn't count on constant population increases, more land, more resources, more energy, to stay in the black. The continuous growth model, in my opinion, works against stability and sustainability.