#globalization

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#end-of-man #extinction #globalization #last-generation #mass-extinction

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations. ↗

— David Korten

#awareness #corporations #global #globalization #huge

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out. ↗

— Leslie T. Chang

#china #chinese #chuqu #city #factory

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again. ↗

— Evo Morales

#already #america #argentina #been #countries

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. ↗

— Robert Reich

#economic growth #free #free trade #globalization #goods

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#culture #globalization #gotten #kind #me

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others. ↗

— Richard Grasso

#basic #country #dependent #each #economy

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector. ↗

— William Greider

#commercial #dollars #global #globalization #interests

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#contagion #globalization #much #phenomenon #very

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#hostile #i #necessarily #other #think