Re: Worldwide competition (2)

[Roger Key <roger.key@onet.co.uk>]

Hi All,
Jean-Marie wrote...
>When I wrote ''globalization'' I referred to the present changes of
>practices in industry and trade, not to a theoretical process. Rich
>countries actually are not ''open up to the rest of the world'', according
>to your theory, while developping countries are so much open to the rest of
>the world that they are plundered by rich countries.
>
>Unfair trade isn't the only feature of globalization. I know another one:
>generalization of lie and theft in industry. Rich countries are the theatre
>of desperate fights between large corporations, above frontiers, and
>workers who have been brought up and educated thanks to the wisdom of their
>government are victims of the mess.

Hear hear.  Where is the free trade in Western pharmacutical companies
taking plant based from the developing world and not giving anything other
than Trinkets in return.
Brazil is looking to fell massive areas of the Amazon to provide housing
and industrial sites so that they can continue developing.  The Amazon is a
global resource that if we in the West were not into theiving the wealth
from the unwary would be worth potentiall more to Brazil than the oil is
worth to Saudi Arabia yet we encourage the felling and destruction of it...


>A government can foster cooperation without using force. The European
>Commission in Brussels has been doing this for 20 years. The result isn't
>too bad.

A large proportion of the UK would argue with that one Jean-Marie, both on
the fostering of co-operation and the goodness of the result....  I guess
quality, win-win etc can still be determined by the view from where you are.


	Roger.

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