Globalism

And great stories too...

I guess living abroad works for those that are not creatures-of-habit per se.

I had a buddy in college that worked abroad as soon as he came out of college mostly in SE Asia and about half-that-time in Malaysia but he worked in various countries and would also travel for business while living in Malaysia - he really liked-it but he had the right make-up for that - he was a risk-taker and also was genuinely interested about foreign cultures and enjoyed trying to pick up the local languages - he was also the type of guy that could easily adapt to things and had a very outgoing personality where he could easily make friends with anyone anywhere.

He's been back in the states for the last 10-years or so but I kinda lost track of him and IDK if he still has a desire to be abroad - last time we spoke I think he wanted to be in the states to sorta settle down although at one point he was close to marrying a Malaysian girl but it didn't come to fruition.

Vh should go global. She doesn't belong in America.

I have a daughter who in the past ten years has spent about 25% of her work time traveling, primarily to Asia. Traveling from the East Coast to Asia entails a lot of flying. I recently saw a plane ticket: Boston to Chicago to Singapore to Shanghai to Seoul to Jakarta to Germany to Boston in 18 days. All Business class, lie-flat seats on the long flights and oh, $22,000 price tag. Then hotel rooms at 5 star hotels, and a healthy expense account. Her company has offices in Seoul and in Singapore so she’s gotten to know people there. That and a willingness to eat anything (1000 year old egg soup?) are evidence that taking her to top shelf restaurants as a 3 year old (fresh trout in Vail) paid off. That and a stay at home dad with her children make this grandfather proud.

^ what line of work is your daughter in to have those nice perks?

My version of globalism. In the past 12 months, I have fucked women from Russia, Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Ukraine, Columbia, Puerto Rico and California.

^^^^^^ :) :) :)

SJG

"On the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!" --Kipling

I was in Mandalay (an old capital of Myanmar or Burma) a few weeks ago as part of my travels in Indo-China. Exotic and strange.

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I don’t wanna get into detail about what my ex-boyfriend did but his was about a 90% travel job. And he was in various places through the US and internationally.

For a while, he didn’t even bother keeping an apartment. What’s the point when you’re at home for about a week once every two months? He ended up buying a house cause it was easy to save up cash for the down payment.

Anyways, there was a brief period where he took a break from that, but I think he resumed the travel thing again. (Haven’t talked to him recently so idk for sure)

But doing some type of insense travel gig for corporate America seems pretty sweet. Lodging and meals and car rentals were all expensed. Which leaves income super disposable.

And of course the ability to enjoy the local culture and scenery whenever there is down time. 😊

I’ve lived overseas and visited about 25 countries. Great experiences and memories.

One thing that came out of those experiences is an appreciation for how fortunate I am to live in the USA. It’s not only the material conveniences but the freedoms we have.

“on the unequal scales of the global economy, the favoured élites of Western and especially American societies must inevitably, grow richer, while the rest of the world could revert to the conditions of Blake's 'Dark Satanic Mills'...”

Well at least @CJ has books. Who needs plane tickets to get cultured. 😂

cul·tured
/ˈkəlCHərd/

adjective

1. characterized by refined taste and manners and good education.

Touché

Cultured = boring. Synonyms are great.

Skifredo calling something boring - that’s rich!

I met this geoduck near Seattle that decided to put on a suit, call himself rick, and tell hairless ape babes that he’s a chemical engineer. My investigation revealed that his real name was fredothegeoduck.

You know what I did to old fredotheclam? Well, I ate him for impersonating a rick, of course. But the interesting thing is that he had better spelling and grammar than old skifredo there. You should have seen that weird little clam wearing a suit and typing away on an iPad using his siphon. It actually warmed my rick heart a bit.

Anyhoo, the moral of the story is that skifredo is stupider than a bivalve. ROAR!!!

Back to the topic at hand. As a former resident of tha NC I am, of course, an African. Now I am truly a citizen of the world, loyal only to the ricks.

Dumb apes like that mark idiot think America is special because it has“freedoms”. There is but one true freedom in the world: freedom to serve the ricks! Mark will learn this when I come up behind him and whisper a certain word.

A word that rhymes with schmildebeest...ROAR!!!

Faggots always think of being behind a guy.

Globalism benefits and elite, but not most people.

SJG

SJG,

You’d be surprised how many poor people benefit tremendously from globalism. The truth about globalism might not fit your pre-existing biases. The truth didn’t fit mine either.

But after having spent so many years in so-called “shit-hole” countries and having many friends and even in-laws who yearn for a job in a sweatshop factory, I can tell you without reservation that their choices before the sweatshops opened up were far uglier than anything they faces in the sweatshops.

When you close down the sweatshops, the employees don’t go back to school. They take even crappier jobs or turn to prostitution so they can afford to eat.

I have been approached more times than I can recall by little girls who appeared to be 12 years old or younger offering sexual favors for less than you would pay for a Snickers bar.

I find that far more disgusting than thinking of those little girls stitching soccer balls in a sweatshop.

Yeah, it would be even better if they could be enrolled in school but that’s simply not yet an available option to many who have to spend their days evading malnutrition or worse.

Globalisation is like Capitalism itself, it destroys existing economies.

Sweat Shop Factories are a product of global capitalism, they would not be part of a traditional economy.

SJG

You don’t even seem to understand the problem. You are familiar only with cliches, slogans and half truths.

Many in the third world and even the developing world if forced to subsist entirely on a traditional economy would live on the brink of starvation.

I KNOW A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE ON A FIRST NAME BASIS.

Do you know where Onar is? How about Saengga or Pagerungan? Have you seen how the people in those remote communities live limited to their traditional economies?

I do.

I’ve told some of them that there are people like you in the USA that want to close the sweatshops that they would love to land a job in.

They were shocked. They asked me why anyone would be so cruel. But I explained that such people were not cruel at all. They were just sadly uninformed.

But their subsistence existence is already caused by global capitalism, and they have been on the short end of it.

I mean sure, if they could all become stock brokers, then they could become rich.

You are the one who is trading in cliche's.

And know what, Global Capitalism is now making more and more of the United States live in bare subsistence.

SJG

Wrong again.

Most people are poor today.

Most people were poor 1,000 years ago.

Damn near everybody was poor 10,000 years ago.

I don’t think capitalism had anything to do with it.

Try thinking beyond the cliches.

The truth is more complicated but also a lot more interesting.

No, in subsistence economies most people are not necessarily poor. People are taken care of.

Its only when you introduce Capitalism and the ideology of the market that you have all in competition with each other and people not being taken care of, but dependent on how much market demand $$ that they can generate. So you have starvation incomes, plus sexual exploitation.

SJG

Reverend, you are preaching Horatio Alger stories, saying that it is to the advantage of the Little Brown Skinned people's go along with the colonizer.

Well Capitalism does not solve problems, it must makes them worse, and then it tries to export them.

A sustainable economy does not work that way.

A traditional economy does not depend on young girls selling sex.

Distribution by markets is a very new idea. Plato, Aristotle, and Jesus hated the concept.

SJG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Al…

SJG

Wrong again.

At least you’re consistent.

There ARE some places where people live moderately well on a traditional, non-technological economy. I’m not saying there aren’t.

But there are even more places where people subsist on a traditional, non-technological economy are desperately poor.

That’s the base news.

The good news is that they live in harmony with nature. They have fleas, lice, intestinal parasites and despite a phenomenally high birthrate, Mother Nature ruthlessly keeps their numbers in check.

The kindly people of Onar on the south shore o led Bintuni Bay have lived a traditional, Neolithic lifestyle for millennia. They were untouched by capitalism. They were unharmed by it and didn’t benefit from it either.

Their infant mortality rate was about 27% when I visited in 2001.

I suspect it’s lower now.

As for the sweatshops, how many people do you know who have worked in one? Have you ever asked them why they work there?

I have.

None of them work there involuntarily. They all said they work there because it’s easier than working knee deep in a rice field under a tropical sun and it pays better.

I wish they had better choices but I’m opposed to taking away a choice that they regard as better because it offends someone on the other side of the world who doesn’t realize that closing the sweatshop will not improve their lives.

Capitalism is neither a panacea nor a scourge. The same can be said of socialism. I know of no economy that is entirely capitalistic nor any that is completely socialistic.

I regard people who focus on those labels and jerk their knees accordingly when they hear those terms as either mentally lazy or idiots.

The US has an infant mortality rate about double what other industrialized nations have.

People had to forced to go into wage labor. Peasants had to be starved, and then still driven off at gun point, to get them to leave the land and go into cities to work at starvation wages.

This is the point of Buckminster Fuller, we have the technology to provide everything so that everyone can live better than even royalty had in past centuries. Now true, mostly the technology for doing this was developed at public expense to be able to kill people better.

But the technology and the productive capability is there already.

So why don't we see this? Its because we demand that everyone prove that they can earn a living.

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Path-Kiy…

SJG

Adam Schiff will be on MSNBC tonight

SJG,

I’m sure you’re trying to make a point but I’ll be damned if I know what it is.

It hardly matters.

Your banal prattle bores me.

Capitalism is a system for economic harvesting. It does not bring about peace, harmony, opportunity, or sustainability.

We already produce enough of everything people need to live better than royalty. But yet we live amidst strife and suffering.

SJG

You’re a still not making a coherent point, junior.

I hope you’re not trying to imply that adopting socialism will end strife and suffering.

I’ve spent plenty of time in socialist and even communist societies where, at least in theory, everyone produces according to his/her ability and receives in accordance with his/her needs.

Most (but not all) such places are portraits in misery. The same can be said of some capitalist economies.

By the way, do you even know which are the ten most capitalist countries in the world? Probably not. You should look into this. You will be astounded. The USA isn’t among the top 10! We rank below several countries that are usually considered far more socialist than the USA.

For a guy who pretends to be so well read, you come across as astoundingly, even painfully, naïve.

The world’s social and economic problems are orders of magnitude more complex than you appear to comprehend.

Stay in school.

You are describing places which have no tradition of democracy. Some kind of socialism has been imposed at gun point.

It would only come to that in the US, if our electoral democracy continues to fail.

SJG

SJG

Get a library card.

Dear Reverend, you are wasting your time just smash the ignore button and get back to your life's work.

I read as many books as I possibly can.

You need a library card:

https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Demos-Neo…

SJG

SJG,

Comic books don’t count.

Rev, you sound like an Ayn Rand comic book.

SJG

OMG!

You’re still reading at the Ayn Rand level?

That explains a lot!

No, I don't go for that.

But it sounds like you must.

SJG

You evidently don’t even read my comments very well. Are there too many polysyllabic words?

I have repeatedly expressed the same disdain for those whose simplistic analyses lead them to conclude that capitalism will solve all economic woes and that socialism is the root of all evil as I have expressed for dim-witted runts like you who take the opposite but equally simplistic view of the world.

Your views are so incredibly childish and one dimensional that I seriously doubt you’re even old enough to shave.

Capitalism has never worked well. And the big lie is that Capitalism is the only way.

Now we really have reached the major crisis.

SJG

A wise man once said "-Ism's in my are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself."


...I think it was Ferris Bueller

And Capitalism is an -ism, it is not based on any kind of rationality what so ever.

SJG