From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 09:26:14 MST
> Some fat cat professor with a 100K salary and a big house considers
> the effect of globalization upon foreigners before he considers the
> effect it has upon his own fellow citizens? Typical.
Why does the cryonfan believe that globalization does not benefit
citizens of 1st world nations?
Lee (hoping to learn more about "globalization", which a
co-worker contends is a term that has already so many
negative associations that it's not used by people,
evidently except Singer!, who want it to happen)
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of cryofan
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Greatest Good for he who already got his own
>
> >GLOBALIZATION
> >
> >< http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0211.easterbrook.html >
> >Singer is the Ira DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center
> >for Human Values of Princeton. Singer, generally a hero to the loony left,
> >struggles with the issues of globalization in a rigorously hard-headed
> >manner rarely seen on this topic. Singer discards, or even shreds, much
> >anti-globalization cant, focusing on which international economic policies
> >will have the utilitarian outcome of raising living standards for the developing
> >world's poor. He proposes that formation of a "global ethical community"
> >roughly along UN lines should be a sustained, long-term historic objective,
> >but is realistic about the need to work within the existing framework of
> >nations and borders pretty much indefinitely. And, crucially, he is not
> >opposed to economic globalization. He asks the big question that
> >anti-globalizers
> >always dodge, namely: If we did away with globalization, would the poor
> >of the developing world be better off?
>
> Some fat cat professor with a 100K salary and a big house considers
> the effect of globalization upon foreigners before he considers the
> effect it has upon his own fellow citizens? Typical.
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