jimbojonesforyou

jimbojonesforyou t1_j658y7x wrote

Reply to The next globalisation: there is growing support for the idea that the world is experiencing not 'deglobalisation' but rather 're-globalisation', owing to accelerating changes in energy and technology. by Vucea

The anti-globalization crowd is really delusional. Many of them live in places that are disconnected from the rest of the country and the world. Conservatives have this idea that the US obtained absolute economic and social perfection in the 1950s and if we just elect the right politicians they can and will take us back to the post war era. Many people believe that the post war boom should last forever, that's just how things should be, we all should be able to have a giant home in the suburbs with a giant lawn and two clunkers in the garage and we should be able to afford that with a GED starting when we are 18 by going to work in some factory or warehouse or mine. They think if we elect the right Conservatives then they can and will reverse globalization and suddenly we all live in 1954 again. What they don't realize is that globalization is much more than just factory jobs sent to Mexico or China. Everything we do every day is the result of international commerce and intermingling of business and culture across borders and oceans. Globalization is in our banks, real estate, media, tech companies, pharmaceuticals, medicine, education, government, energy, everything from weed edibles to cat food to sex and in-between. We aren't going back to the 1950s. The reason globalization didn't happen sooner is because after WW2 our economic competition was literally blown apart and others were under the rule of socialism and we barely had any competition in manufacturing, construction, and services. Only people who have never left their hometown suburb actually believe that we are going to get back to pre-globalization economics.

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jimbojonesforyou t1_iydhp77 wrote

Reply to U.S Cable TV Companies Quietly Bled Another 785,000 Paying Customers Last Quarter by speckz

Cable TV... you get 5 channels of 24/7 "news," which is just talking heads and sensationalist crap. Oh and then you get another 10 channels of reality TV where I'm supposed to be interested in some random people's daily lives... no. Especially now with all the pirate sites streaming sports games there is absolutely no reason to want cable tv. Haven't had it since I lived in a college dorm 15 years ago.

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