[p2p-research] higher transportation costs can reverse globalization

[Samuel Rose]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Samuel Rose wrote:
> > Globalization began in part precisely (after WWII) precisely because
> local
> > systems were too efficient for market mass producers.
> ...
> > This is why people who are working to create local food system
> > infrastructure need to be careful to make them a self-sustaining,
> community,
> > collaborative, peer-governed system. They also need to be more agile,
> more
> > adaptable than behemoth companies are.
>
> What causes efficiency to be a 'problem'?



If you are greedy, and want to control everything, then it's not good to
have a gaggle of local people, that everyone locally knows and loves, and
that cater to local needs and offer a superior product, and who can
out-compete you. So, if you are giant corporation that wants to control
everything, it is in your interests to find both areas where this gaggle of
great local people does not yet exist (like non-industrialized countries in
the 1940's and 1950's and onward). It is also in your interest to start
working on eroding and undermining that gaggle of locals. A nice big Wal
Mart or Lowes home improvement megastore slapped down rigth in the middle of
evrything, or a series of local farm buyouts might do the trick for
instance....



>
>
> Will efficiency also be a 'problem' for local food systems?


Yes.


>
>
> Is efficiency a problem for the lone islander?


Depends on who the loan islander is.... ;-)


>
>
> What Mode of Production can withstand (Local? added by Sam) efficiency?
>

Lying, and appealing to base emotions, coupled with whatever mode of
production you'd care to choose, seems to have trumped modes of production
that were simply efficient for a while now.

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