Should economic globalization be encouraged? why or why not?

Survey on free trade and globalization?

  • Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, or Strongly Disagree for each statement, please. 1) Globalization has made the rich richer while making the non-rich poorer in the United States. 2) Globalization benefits consumers by lowering prices. 3) Multinational corporations are increasingly influencing political decisions between governments. 4) Globalization helps to spread prosperity to poorer countries. 5) Globalization has helped us socially be more open and tolerant toward other cultures. 6) Globalization makes it easier for rich companies to act with less accountability for human rights. 7) Globalization makes it easier for rich companies to act with less accountability for the environment. 8) Globalization has led to exploitation of labor. 9) Globalization suppresses wages for production workers in the United States. Sorry it's long, but I would really appreciate it!

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    1, Definitely not 2. Definitely 3. Yes 4. Definitely 5. Logical, but I'm not sure there is any evidence to support that 6. Disagree. Everything becomes more visible 7. Disagree. Everything becomes more visible 8. Definitely not. To exploit someone you have to do something for which they obtain no benefit. 9. Not necessarily. It probably does shift jobs form some industries to others. But then competition of all kinds does that.

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1) no 2) possibly, at the expense of lost jobs to the country with the absolute advantage 3) not sure 4) yes. even sweatshops (albeit "starvation" wages) provide work that otherwise wouldn't be there 5) I would say no, i'm pissed that we of-shore jobs to other countries to make more profits 6) yeah probably, move to china with out any regulation, and it doesn't matter what happens to employees. 7) yeah, move to china where there is no health standards, pollute the hell out of the air, who cares? 8) Giving someone a job and paying them isn't exploiting labor, thats called slavery. 9) yeah, when they try to compete with cheaper labor abroad, they must lower some expense if they wish to make a profit off a product which is being produced cheaper elsewhere.

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The answers are 1.true 2.true 3.true 4.true 5.true 6.true,violation is obvious. 7.true, check it out in all new industrialized countries, mostly in Asia. 8.true, heading to low wage countries. 9.true, lower wage or outsourcing.

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