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Started by Richard Hakluyt, May 08, 2017, 02:25:24 AM

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Do you regard yourself as a winner or loser from the process of globalisation?

Winner
26 (51%)
Loser
7 (13.7%)
Neither
16 (31.4%)
Jaron should be deported to Mexico
2 (3.9%)

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Richard Hakluyt

May 08, 2017, 02:25:24 AM
Give reasons if you like.

Josquius

#1
May 08, 2017, 03:41:05 AM
Globalisation offers an escape from the damage wrought by past and present domestic governments.
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celedhring

#2
May 08, 2017, 04:07:40 AM
I've studied and worked abroad, and my professional standing has benefited from it.

I'm not sure I'm a "winner" since I'm hardly wealthy, but I'm "fine".

Grinning_Colossus

#3
May 08, 2017, 05:02:26 AM Last Edit: May 08, 2017, 06:18:32 AM by Grinning_Colossus
I come from a formerly industrial area that went to hell after the 80s. I managed to get out eventually, but the journey wasn't fun.
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

Razgovory

#4
May 08, 2017, 05:41:13 AM
I don't really do anything, so neither.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#5
May 08, 2017, 05:56:24 AM
I voted to rescue Jaron from the Mormons.
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garbon

#6
May 08, 2017, 06:53:59 AM
I'm the terrible sort that Oex wrote about in the other thread.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HVC

#7
May 08, 2017, 07:27:51 AM
People like cheap shit. Globalization is the price we pay. Although it's also used often as a liberal buzz word for "damn foreigners"

For the purposes of the poll I'm neither.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Valmy

#8
May 08, 2017, 08:24:19 AM
While I am not exactly holding down my six figure job in South Africa or whatever I think Texas in general has been a big winner. So I guess I am as well.
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viper37

#9
May 08, 2017, 08:50:00 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 08, 2017, 02:25:24 AM
Give reasons if you like.
globalization expands markets.  Industrial companies have a larger client base and they need expansion of their buildings, wich I gladly provide.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

viper37

#10
May 08, 2017, 08:50:56 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on May 08, 2017, 05:02:26 AM
I come from a formerly industrial area that went to hell after the 80s. I managed to get out eventually, but the journey wasn't fun.
industrial production, in North America at least, is bigger than ever.  The problem is they need much less people for it.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Richard Hakluyt

#11
May 08, 2017, 08:57:09 AM
Yes, apropos a remark made in another thread, it is probably automation  and technological innovation that is costing us the old industrial jobs rather than competition from abroad.

Valmy

#12
May 08, 2017, 09:03:00 AM
Yes. And there is nothing really governments can do about that. The world is changing and people are upset about it. The whole reaction carries a nostalgia for the 60s and 70s that I find rather unsettling anyway. Those days were not that great. Granted I was only alive for three years of the 70s.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

CountDeMoney

#13
May 08, 2017, 09:06:31 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 08, 2017, 08:57:09 AM
Yes, apropos a remark made in another thread, it is probably automation  and technological innovation that is costing us the old industrial jobs rather than competition from abroad.

Can't blame immigrants for that, though.

The Brain

#14
May 08, 2017, 10:43:26 AM
Voted winner. Sweden depends on international trade.
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