What benefits, if any, has globalization bought to mankind?

[BR_Parkway]

I've been sitting here wondering about that this morning, and can't really come up with anything concrete.

[meegbear]

1. You can download porn from anywhere in the world

[HereSince1628]

2. Huge profits to unworthy CEO's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You really left yourself open on that one. :evilgrin:

[LiberalFighter]

9. He did specify mankind. Not manevil.

[opihimoimoi]

3. If we dare to peep....it means the makings of Peace and Stabilitzation

are in place....

The Lines of communication and intercultural exchange are open...for the most part they are....

On the down side...we have cheap labor and poor health codes,etc., in some Nations....

On the up side....cheap goods....

The entire system needs an overhaul....trouble is....we don't know how to pay the price yet...

[Romulox]

4. Only if you ignore reality. War, terrorism, massive inequality, modern day slavery

All made possible by "globalism".

PS Back when I was an undergrad, there were large movements of people attempting to force colleges to certify the logo gear they licensed wasn't made in a sweatshop. Remember that? :hi:

[BR_Parkway]

5. Actually, there are still groups on campus pushing for that - USAS

United Students Against Sweatshops

[ThomWV]

7. Each of those things was doing just fine before globilization and will be doing fine after its gone

Globilization did not cause war, terriorism, massive inequality, or slavery (modern day - what's that mean, do you see slavery today as any different than any other time in history?) they were all there long before we even knew there was a globe.

Spain was at war the day Columbus sailed, what we would call terrorists today have existed since the earliest history, there has never been equality, and slavery was in fashion long before the Romans ruled. Not one of the things you mention exists because of globilization - not one.

[Romulox]

8. Not "cause". FACILITATE. Globalism facilitates, and accelerates, each of the ills I've named.

And for much the same reasons it facilitates the positive things mentioned.

[AngryAmish]

12. Globalism helped stamp out slavery to a great extent

For the history of mankind slavery was a given. The Bible is one of the oldest books I can easily recall and there are lots of rules in there about what should and should not be done to and by a slave. Rome - slave economy. Ever hear of the relationship between the Spartans and the Helots?

Anyway, the British decided to outlaw slavery in the earlyish 19th century. This was after the Napoleonic wars and they ruled the seas. British warships many times attacked slavers on the high seas. British warships were on the high seas to keep open the shipping lanes between China, India, the New World and England.


As for the benefits of globalization: vaccine use throughout the world was made possible through globalization. These vaccines were created in the western world and brought to the rest of the world through the open trade and travel channels made possible by globalization.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. All of these have always existed.

The idea that any of these are new or recent concepts is false.

[nebenaube]

6. but..

This is the third attempt and the previous two attempts lead to world war.

[robcon]

10. Huge expansion of the middle class worldwide.

It's the best thing that has happened to the world economy. It also promotes peace and harmony among trading countries.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. How do you define globalization?

Since the first caveman hiked over the hill into the next valley in order to trade a particularly nice blue rock for a particularly nice pile of dung, interstate trade has been one of the foundations of human society. It is not an inherently good or evil force. It has brought great profit to many, but it has also brought great hardship.

In current times, it has brought positive benefits (the availability of inexpensive communications equipment like computers and networking equipment has allowed people to be connected to the rest of the world in a way previously impossible.) It has also brought hardship (pollution, "brain drain" on troubled economies.)

The problem with the term "globalization" is that it's so vague that its supposed supporters simply define it to mean those positive aspects, and its detractors define it to mean only its negative aspects.

I am neutral on "globalization" as a concept, because I don't see it as anything new or different than what has been going on for the entire history of humanity.

[shadowknows69]

13. We'll have lots of company when they turn us into a third world country too?

Trying to take the "Glass half full" approach.

[sohndrsmith]

15. depends on whether you are looking for a financial answer, a humanitarian answer, a

societal answer, an ethical answer, an ecological answer or a political answer or an ethical answer (or any of the answers I've left out by design or memory lapse).

mankind and globalization are co-dependent and contradictory all at once... it's a heady philosophical conversation that I'm not sure I can do justice to in such broad terms...
: )

[Orsino]

16. Slight increase in awareness of our fellow travelers.

It's not without resentment and just plain bigotry, but yes, we can now find our old jobs on a map.