the ability to convince someone of your stand is something that i totally admire, sadly very few people i know have it..this johan norberg dude, (Author of In defence of Global Capitalism) (thanks to you- know- who) is amazing. articulate, simple, straighforward. but then again, globalisation is not just about higher salaries and free boundaries. the dynamics of globalisation work at lower levels than that. (remember the whole 'Fall of the WTC will increase global poverty' bit) to the extent that if we become completely "free" we will also be entitled to the fluctuations in the global market, which means that if America is suffering from a recession, we are boudn to suffer from it as well, coz we are all connected. besides, after a point, when an MNC becomes an important non state entity, it has the power of controling the political system as well. all very reminiscent of the British Raj eh!! also, all this mumbo jumbo about free and fair competition might sound noble, but hello, let's all remember that competition is fair when it's among equals. remember how you hated it when the school bully always beat you up coz he was bigger than you...(Find someone your size) and by the way, Next time you sip on a Coke coz they pay higher salaries to your people,(which again is relative and not absolute) remember, that they also suck up the ground water dry, (free of course!!) leaving your very people with no water to irrigate or drink.
by the way it's not like i am a leftist or something, i am just me, hoping for a fairer, free-er (if there is a word like that), happier world. we gave socialism a chance ..they screwed up ..(Nehruvian idea of socialism with their huge mammoth factories and industries as the symbols of Socialist strength), we gave capitalism a chance, they promised us welfare..they failed...so now whom do we look upto? well, what about socialism with a change, socialism with freedom, not the socialism that stifles you..New Age Socialism anyone??