From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 11:33:06 MST
Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> said:
> > 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?
Aside from the issue of whether or not globalization (GLB) DOES or DOES NOT
affect the citizens of America (or, since this list is multinational),
Citizens of the Developed "Democracies" (CDDs), as I pointed out, WHERE is
the CONSIDERATION of its effects upon such CDDS? THe learned perfessor jumps
jumps right into milking sympathy for the residents of the 3rd world (R3Ws).
MY social contracts with other human critters run on a sliding/descending
scale:
1. immediate family and fellow cryonicists
2. extended family
3. longtime friends
4. co-workers
5. my fellow American citizens
6. fellow members of CDDs
7. everyone else (which includes R3Ws).
Delta (Strength of Social Contract) is NOT evenly distributed between the
adforementioned levels...
Fact is, both common sense and many scientific studies show that the NET
effect of GLB, and its assorted trappings, NEGATIVELY affect most CDDs and
POSITIVELY affect a minority of CDDs. And of course there are several pink
elephants over in the GLB corners that "polite society" (i.e., major media
outlets, and other entities, such as mailing lists, etc) will not even
discuss....
>
> 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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