--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > I agree that there should be some help for the people involved. > > But the people should take the initiative to find other > > opportunities when their current jobs are at a dead end. There's > > a reason why some jobs are being outsourced to other countries. > > That's because it's more efficient to do so. > > For whom? > > You people are so...so...nineteenth century. You > still think in terms of countries, as if they > were important and were running the planet. It's > a corporate planet, and has been for some time. > > Of the top 150 economic entities on the planet > by GDP, two thirds of them are *companies*, not > countries: > > http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0220-roundtable.html <http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0220-roundtable.html> > > > On the other, pure capitalism is not the answer either. There > > should be an economic system that allows the people to take care > > of their economic needs and their spiritual well being. > > Dream on. There is only one rule among the two > thirds of the economic entities on this planet, > and that is profit. They all think like Shemp. > (Isn't THAT a scary thought?) > > The corporations make their own rules, they make > their own laws (in Iraq, Blackwater employees can > now not be prosecuted for crimes that are still > illegal for Iraqis and U.S. soldiers, including > murder), and they do not answer to voters, only > to their bottom line and the shareholders. And, > as evidenced by the history of the United States > in the last few years, many of the 1/3 of countries > do the bidding of the corporations, not vice-versa. > > Immigration, schmimigration. That's just where you > live. Wherever you do, chances are you work -- > directly or indirectly -- for one of the real powers > on the planet. > > WAKE UP, people...you are living in the past. It's > no longer a world run by countries. It's a multi- > national corporate world in which countries are > quickly becoming irrelevant. They have their own > armies and they make and fight their own wars. The > corporate-run world of the future, portrayed in > fiction by William Gibson and TV series like Charlie > Jade and movies like War, Inc., is NOT a thing of > the future. It's here now.>>
I totally agree with Turq. (and that's a first !) OffWorld
