What is globalism and what do you think of it?

Chiefly it's the integration of economies globally by the lowering of trade barriers. There's a lot of irony in how people are approaching it too. Big business LOVES it, it has pushed their profitability to heights unheard of. The ability to utilize the cheapest labor, cheapest commodities, and to sell their product in the richest markets have made them money hand over fist over goddamn dump truck. And, the ability to store their assets in tax havens around the world has also been amazing for them.

One ironic bit, in the US anyway, is that we love our big businesses! Oh sure, citizens have many complaints about them, like low wages, price gouging, bribery, unsafe financial practices, etc. But despite those complaints, we almost never act. In fact, the taxes and regulation on our major businesses continue to decline, while their political power continues to grow. Citizens by not like it, but not by enough to act on it in a way that forces our leader to address it. We tacitly accept trickle down economics, so we pile money onto our wealthy businesses and individuals hoping that they'll do something with it that eventually benefits the less wealthy. Sure many of us already know this theory is bunk, but we tacitly accept it anyway.

We also love the low prices that globalism offers us, and are some of globalisms biggest advocates in reality. The cultural homogenization people are talking about, that's us, we're the ones doing it. Bringing democracy everywhere we go, shoehorning our companies into other countries, exporting vast amounts of our media all over the world. We ARE globalism. XD

Globalism has made our country fantastically wealthy and powerful, and so it's unlikely to go anywhere. Our lower classes do suffer from it somewhat, especially because we refuse to reform and offer reasonably priced healthcare and education to our citizens, because the companies and institutions that offer those make too much money to let us reform it and join every other developed country in the world. Another bit of irony being that this refusal will eventually collapse and cost these companies dearly, but gorging on short-term profits to impress investors is apparently considered more important than longterm viability and the common good. It's a vicious cycle really. As the elite soak up more and more of the available wealth, drawing their investment becomes more and more important. And so companies compete by pushing their short-term sky high, by bilking the lower classes as much as they possibly can. This in turn puts more money into the high-elites' pockets, and makes them even more important as investors!

I'm getting off topic. TL;DR, the US actually LOVES globalism.

Globalism to me is international organisations like UN, EU, NATO having more power to take decisions than sovereign nations. Also forced cultural homogeneisation, open borders, pushing for a global currency, government, or global decisions on any matter.

My opinion...you know, 💩.
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