At it's core Globalisation feeds on Cheap Labour. It's undeniable and it's entrenched..
Read the History of the United States and it’s obvious that the early days
were indeed the ‘land-of-the-free’ not in freedom of spirit but rather a
catch-all phrase for the going hourly wage of the average labourer. Cry foul
and say it isn’t so but whichever way you want it ‘Free’ (cheap) migrant labour
from Ireland, Italy, China and others built what is, today, the world’s largest economy. Today’s
shift in ‘economic strength’ away from the West is based ONLY on the glut of cheap labour offered in China, South
East Asia and India and is the ONLY advantage the 'East' has over the 'West'.
Paradoxically the proposed move
to the political right in both France and Germany suggests, now more than ever,
that The Citizens, in their demands
for a decent living from the countries of their birth, have little grasp of
the economic side-effects of globalisation. Unless the citizens concede the
point and join the masses in the eastern sweatshops, their economic days are
numbered. Social instability is here to stay. By extrapolation, politicians who
promise 'work for our people' will become more popular in mature economies but the promises are nothing more than an economic
dream in countries which face economic obsolescence.
Where material wealth defines the
person why should we care that the people-of-the-west are accelerating towards
a state of beggared poverty? Perhaps in a fuzzy sort of way and somewhere embedded
in our warped sense of right & wrong we can’t help but feel sorry for the ‘strugglers’;
a sentiment which, perversely, led to globalisation
in the first place.
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