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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: cmhitman on April 30, 2003, 10:48:07 pm
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this is a thread to discuss contemporary
politics and (its ok to conjure up things of the past if
they play into your statement)
The game goes as such, I\'ll post a statement about a
political practice then anyone can responde with
another statement. Argumentative statements are ok,
but useless arguing is not allowed. if the topic gets
boring I\'ll restate on another, else we continue.
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With globalization, America will be the first society/Government to in affect, take over the entire world.
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I think the word \'will\' could be scraped in favour of a word in another tense.
I\'m all for globalization. If it means I get stuff cheaper and at a better quality then hand-made stuff. The problem is, that it\'s turning into companies controlling the way we live. That\'s bad, especially when all the companies are under the thumb of the man himself, George Wanker Bush.
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Originally posted by Aztec_Brave
If it means I get stuff cheaper and at a better quality then hand-made stuff.
that idea is pretty old and was called indutrialation ...but the problem is that most things ARE of better quality if they\'re hand-made. and having a great market doesn\'t solve the expensiveness problem ...imagine a global monopolism - that would be REALLY expensive (just look at the price of a M$ product, where you know it\'s not worth a tenth of it) ...globalisation in some idea is a good thing, but it has too much bad side-effects ...i like it as it is :]
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aztec, Even though globalization is all but a fact I put ?will? because there are some African states that are still resisting
Glass half empty effect.
You could look at it as them giving you better products for a ?cheaper? price or as them being able to make you fell like your getting a deal when in reality all the slave-wage-workers do is cut production costs witch in turn helps corps yield higher profits or balance their bank books. I dont\'t feel the consumer-based economies will last long. We are way too inefficient and the whole idea is ill. People will get sick with all the games these corporations play to get money from use. Look what happens with the music industry when DSL and Peer-to-Peer technology took off.
Reality is consumers are just like addicts. You saw the lines in front of Toys R Us when Playstation hit the streets. When 50 cent (the rap artist) dropped His Get Rich Or Die Trying Record it only took two weeks before everybody I know had his cd and only a month before Mtv had him as host. You every notice that yearn, that happiness you feel when you hear about the next final fantasy release? How all you want to do is live, smell and breathe your product. I slept with my xbox the first night I bought it (didn?t want my bastard ?lil brothers beating DOA3 or playing Halo before I got to take a hit.)
In my mind a crack-head and a consumer are one in the same. Just some of us consumers have a little more since than your average crack-head. Leave it to some corporations and even that won?t matter. You see those McDonald commercials? The ones with all the happy kids crowding around a brightly colored clown. Their smiling from ear to ear while he?s handing out toys, then they cut to an overly ornate cheeseburger that screams eat me. Then years later one out of every four of those same little kids is over weight or obese. Only reason we consumers are overlooking the fact these corps don?t give a damn about the consumer is because we\'re addicted to this stuff and their addicted to the money.