02/02/2024
Globalisation makes no sense to anybody other than greedy CEO's, whose determination to cut costs at any price knows no boundary, and reckless shoppers, whose consumerism and addiction to cheap, crummy imports fail to consider the long-term harm and self-inflicted damage.
However, reports of protests against cheap imports and bureaucracy fails to mention one important element: our cheap imports are offset by our economy's dependence on exports.
The core of the issue, which everybody overlooks, is globalisation itself. What have we done to our world? All our food was once grown and reared in our own communities, and our materialism needs were satisfied by the produce of local artisans. But now we are unable to cope without fuelling the economies (and dictatorships) of China, et al.
If we can stop all imports and exports – period! – and start putting ourselves and our communities first, the protests have a point. Otherwise, all is lost. However, the caveat to reaching this utopia of self-sufficiency, total employment and putting people before profits is a fair and equal redistribution of wealth. And that is something the wealthy walking the corridors of power cannot face.
