globalization & Pynchon?

[Phil Wise]

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From: <calbert at tiac.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: globalization & Pynchon?


> Sweet J:
>
> > What is the cause of this gap? Is it exploitation of the
> > developing world by the developed world? Globalization? Why
> > is the gap between US rich and US working class & poor
> > growing? What's the connection?
>
> I'm not sure that spending time laboring over the causes is very
> productive....what is of FAR GREATER IMPORTANCE, is insuring
> that MOBILITY up AND DOWN such a ladder is unrestricted, hell,
> even facilitated.......
>
>
> love,
> cfa
>
>
And this is to be done by trade agreements such as the FTAA?  I live in a
country that experimented early and quite fully with free market ideas, and
my assessment of them is that since then the gap has widened, and that
social mobility has become harder rather than easier for those at the bottom
of the ladder.  In the 1960s we had a very highly protected economy and one
of the three highest standards of living in the world.  The two are not
incompatable.

Phil

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