Brent <digital.brent@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>That needs to change.
>
> Why?
>
> Are you arguing against globalised football, or globalisation? Either
> way, I stand in favour of globalisation.
Alex:
The question isn't one of being for or against globalization. The question
is one of whether
globalization needs to be managed by politics and it cannot be questioned
that it does.
1. Countries are currently in competition for mobile global capital. That
means among other things that
countries will dump taxes for the rich in order to attract that capital.
In order to be afford those
tax cuts, they push the philosophy of lean government, which often comes
in the form of cutting on
necessary spending in order to be able to keep up with other nations.
2. If cor****ations argue that implementing higher ecological standards
will bring them disadvantages against
their rivals overseas or in China or India, the right response to that is
*not* to forget about implementing
higher standards wrt protecting the environment. If global competition is
preventing the implementation
of such in the described manner, then the way global competition currently
works isn't part of the solution,
it is part ofd the *problem*.
3. You can see clearly how crappy the very mechanisms in s****ts too,
especially currently in cycling - which has
a massive doping problem (but probably not more than many other s****ts).
Fearing to be left behind by competitors
*and* lusting for money, fame and recognition athletes resort to chemistry
to push their bodies limits. And from
this kind of fraud, it's not an all that big step to Tonya Harding.
As a summary, all-out competition is f**ked up. It is a way of the greedy
to feel *superior* (as in Herrenmensch
vs Untermensch) in comparison to those who have no accomplishments to
bring forth, which is just part of the
global culture of *coolism*, a form of discrimination which is among other
things the driving force in creating
people who go on a shooting spree.
And then you have the conspricacy theorists that think that Bush or the
megacorps are driving this game when they
are being driven themselves. The one who is in the driving seat is the
mechanism of all-out competition itself and
even presidents and CEOs cannot but dance to its tune.
That's not to say that I am against competition: I do recognize its value.
But I am against all-out competition,
competition having gone beyond healthy bounds.
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