centralized oversight

[alice wellintown]

I don't think those who oppose the new economy have a moral compass,
but are motivated by the same things that motivate those who will
outsource their jobs. The goods news is that other people in the
world, people who have long suffered poverty and all that goes with
it, are the new market for both jobs and conusmption. The American
will, as the economy recovers here, slowly but surely, do her share of
consumption as usual, but the new economy doesn't depend on the rich
consumers of America and Europe; not with Brazil, Idia, now China,
next  Africa turning consumers loose. The new wave of jobs is not old
manufacturing or telephone outsource, but in new areas like financial
engineering, medicine, physics, computer science, robotics. The
American can continue to blame corporate greed and globalization for
her troubles, but it won't change anything. The poor are ready to be
wealthy and they will be. What will happen to the planet? Hey, you
Americans should have thought about that when you were developing and
getting rich. But the new economy is doing a better job and it will do
a better job, it has the advantage og backwardness and leapfrong, and,
it will force the Americans to pay for what they did, continue to do,
and must stop doing so the rest of the world can grow rich. Hey,
Americans are tough, they can handle it.



> We might agree about the increasing powerlessness of the presidency, but I don't share your relaxed attitude to being on the losing side.  The global corporatocracy isn't going to usher in an era of benevolence - it's going to be a hellish period in human history when these giant bodies maraud the planet and fight amongst themselves for dwindling resources (such as water) and casually discard anything they can't make a profit off of (surplus humans).  Sure, they'll be winners around the globe in that scenario - there always are - but eventually, they too will succumb to evolution or revolution - but not in our grandchildren's or even great grand-children's lifetimes.  All we (those of us who are less sanguine towards corporate hegemony) can do is take snipes at them anyway we can, whether in the form of Occupy movements, boycotts or as yet undiscovered anti-corporate tactics.  No, it won't hasten the revolution, and no, we don't expect utopia.  But if opposing the corporate powers-that-be helps us retain our humanity and our moral compass, so be it.