Friday, July 22, 2016

Globalization’s few winners and many losers...

I often write about the Tyranny of Price, the rarely examined assumption that lower prices are all that matters.

Thanks to the Tyranny of Price, the quality of many goods has plummeted.Obsolescence is either planned or the result of inferior components that fail, crippling the entire product. As correspondent Mark G. has observed, the poor quality we now accept as a global standard wasn’t available at any price in the 1960s– such poor quality goods were simply not manufactured and sold.

There is another even more pernicious consequence of the Tyranny of Price: globalization, which makes two promises to participants: 1) lower prices everywhere and 2) manufacturing work that will raise millions of poor people in developing economies out of poverty.

Globalization is presented as a win-win solution: the developed countries get cheaper goods and the developing world get the benefits of industrialization.

But now a new study, Poorer Than Their Parents? Flat or Falling Incomes in Advanced Economies, finds that globalization has been a bad deal for 80% of the people in developed economies, as their income and wealth has stagnated or declined. Full story...

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  3. Black Friday is a hoax and a rip-off...
  4. How corporate America exports disease to the rest of the world...
  5. Enslaved by our stuff...
  6. The dirty secret of Black Friday "discounts"
  7. There's a staggering conspiracy behind the rise of consumer culture...
  8. The Lightbulb Conspiracy... (Must watch)

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