Tapsearch Com EditorIndividual Human DIgnity and life of a Community are twins
July 23rd 2008 15:25
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Adam Smith is used by Globalists Free Traders to defend their dehumanizing practices where labor becomes the main commodity being traded. However, Adam Smith maintained that workers are the core of society and something sacred. He most likely would have condemmed Free Trade for this reason.
Individual human dignity and the priorities of community are twins. They are not separate from one another. They depend on one another for the sake of society. Globalization and Free Trade uses rugged individualism and a survival of the fittest which crack the pillars of a good society. Globalization and Free Trade develop only a segment of what makes good communities. When individual human dignity is trampled in the work day with labor reduced to its lowest demensions of impoverished wages and even child labor, everyone suffers. When production is moved from place to place for the sake of the lowest possible wages, burn out communities are left behind. With Free Trade, we now see communities where Free Trade brought jobs only to take them away again. Mexican workers flock to the USA seeking economic survival leaving behind jobs they will not take for less than a dollar an hour. Now many of the factories that were moved to Mexico are on the move again to places like China and who in turn contract even cheaper labor outside of China. Conditions become worst that they were before the factories came. In places like Malaysia, high tech hard disk manufacturers came and many flock to these jobs. Now many of these manufacturers are gone leaving behind worst conditions than before they came.
The world is a world of persons. All are interlinked. Commerce is part of this linkage. If the parts are broken the whole community takes a hit. The Globalists and Free Traders tell us they are bringing a level playing field to the world but as consumers we find that the cheaper imports also mean the lost of living wage jobs which degrade the whole community we live in. In our city, we now have miles of mainstreets with empty storefronts and empty factories. It looks like a wasteland. Governments are now the largest employers while the taxpapers who pay the toll are dwindling away. It is a no win situation.
As a result we have economics smashing against the make up of equity in communities. There is no level playing field but only a few who are enjoying a better life at the expense of a multitude whose individual human dignity has been betrayed.
Individual human dignity and the priorities of community are twins. They are not separate from one another. They depend on one another for the sake of society. Globalization and Free Trade uses rugged individualism and a survival of the fittest which crack the pillars of a good society. Globalization and Free Trade develop only a segment of what makes good communities. When individual human dignity is trampled in the work day with labor reduced to its lowest demensions of impoverished wages and even child labor, everyone suffers. When production is moved from place to place for the sake of the lowest possible wages, burn out communities are left behind. With Free Trade, we now see communities where Free Trade brought jobs only to take them away again. Mexican workers flock to the USA seeking economic survival leaving behind jobs they will not take for less than a dollar an hour. Now many of the factories that were moved to Mexico are on the move again to places like China and who in turn contract even cheaper labor outside of China. Conditions become worst that they were before the factories came. In places like Malaysia, high tech hard disk manufacturers came and many flock to these jobs. Now many of these manufacturers are gone leaving behind worst conditions than before they came.
The world is a world of persons. All are interlinked. Commerce is part of this linkage. If the parts are broken the whole community takes a hit. The Globalists and Free Traders tell us they are bringing a level playing field to the world but as consumers we find that the cheaper imports also mean the lost of living wage jobs which degrade the whole community we live in. In our city, we now have miles of mainstreets with empty storefronts and empty factories. It looks like a wasteland. Governments are now the largest employers while the taxpapers who pay the toll are dwindling away. It is a no win situation.
As a result we have economics smashing against the make up of equity in communities. There is no level playing field but only a few who are enjoying a better life at the expense of a multitude whose individual human dignity has been betrayed.
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