• Saint [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    That doesn’t mean that globalization is an unalloyed good. By its nature, economic liberalism exaggerates the downsides of capitalism as well as the upsides: Inequality increases, companies sever their local roots, losers fall further behind, and — without global regulations — environmental problems multiply.

    Steady on now, old chap!

    • I_Voxgaard [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      "Yet liberalism has also dragged more than a billion people out of poverty in the past three decades and, in many cases, promoted political freedom along with economic freedom. The alternatives, historically speaking, have been wretched."

      Citations fucking needed

      edit: this fucking rag - look at the graphic for GDP divided as free/partially free/not free. "Come on Mexico don't you want us to refer to you as a free nation? Just be a good colony again..."

      edit 2: I can't finish it, it's just so nakedly biased. "Serpents".

        • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          Not to mention the millions that counted as exiting poverty that were only in poverty in the first place because of the disastrous and illegal dissolution of the USSR

          • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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            3 years ago

            It bolsters the point, if you take China out of the consideration, there’s actually been an increase in poverty and polarization of qualities of life and I imagine a lot of those people were/are part of it.

            • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Fuck I really need to remember this point, it's such an easy burn when it comes up

      • UlyssesT
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        15 days ago

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      • theother2020 [comrade/them, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The alternatives, historically speaking, have been wretched.”

        This is what all the most reasonable people I know say. Some famous person once said capitalism sucks but it sucks the least.

    • UlyssesT
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      15 days ago

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    • Saint [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is after talking about "The first great age of globalization, which started in the 1860s and was underpinned by British power and coordinated by British statecraft". Shocking to hear that that wasn't an unalloyed good.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Just yada-yadaing poverty, demolishing a lot of communities, and the destruction of the planet.