Can An @ocrdu Comment In One Of My Globalistion Posts Solve The Problem Of Globalisation i.e. Instigate A Global Law That Says You Can't Sell Anything That Has Been Manufactured Or Grown More Than 200km Away.
This was a very interesting comment from @ocrdu which would allow us to instigate free-trade in all countries and break away from the exports of China.
It would create a new more local set of capitalists instead of the large corporate tranches that currently exist across the globe. Should I dare to call it NEO-CAPITALISM??
But everyone would have to agree globally. And even if they didn't, couldn't a school or a local authority adapt this law instead? I'm sure they could.
By following this global law we wouldn't have to depend on government stimulus to re-awaken the slumbers of globalisation.
It would all be in our hands. A call to arms like Shelley's poem below.
Love to hear your comments.
Stay free!
Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!
~Shelley~The Mask of Anarchy~
no...we have too many laws.
There WILL be unintended consequences.
There always are.
Yeah like my deodorant will be made by my Aunt Mabel! LOL!
Can't be any worse than Brexit - more on that later!!
P.S. Yeah! 2 sticks of your Aunt Mabel's deodorant please @thecentreofitall
Global law? That's gonna be a no from me.
I'll take you off the Aunt Mabel deodorant list ;) Thanks for passing by Matt.
http://www.theonion.com/article/pope-francis-reverses-position-capitalism-after-se-51363
Gotta love those creme fillings! LOL!**
**Currently not available in Vatican City!
You did mean that as a joke right?
I´m sure you are aware that The Onion, is a fake news/news satire site?
I would hate to think that someone would belive that article, although it was kind of funny.
Hello to @ocrdu if your reading this post!
(thanks for the inspiration!)
I only just woke up. But you're welcome.
:-)
It is, of course, just an off-the-wall idea, not necessarily implemented world-wide, (it's not far from what the USA did to build it's industrial base, or what Europe needs to get out of its current slum) and it needs more thought, but I think it would be a good starting point for a more balanced distribution of wealth and jobs and for the breaking of the primacy of enterprises over governments.
It needs exceptions for products that are necessarily produced in a certain region, like champagne and Scottish whisky and Munster cheese 8-).
Making transport very expensive is a related idea.
BTW Saying that any law or rule is bad for the economy or the people is a mantra, not a universal economic truth, and disproved by many historical examples.
Such mantras don't come from sound economic theories, but from almost religiously felt belief systems that are mainly based on folklore, bigotry and magical thinking.
No prediction that has come true has ever come from these belief systems; most don't even apply to the real world as it is today but to a non-existing situation that needs to be implemented first for them to become valid; they are like a boxer that has never lost because he never fought.
It is pointless having a discussion with adherents of these belief systems, because they don't generate falsifiable hypotheses and cannot be proven wrong. A shame really, I like discussions.
I'm a Scot in Poland, so I could never be without my native whisky or porridge oats, so yes! your off the wall system would need to incorporate that.
I liked your analogy of the boxer who never loses because he never fights.
I think you are on to something, although my perspective is an environmental one.
We simply can´t afford to continue with all this transportation of goods.
And although I´m an anarchist, as long as we have governments we need to put pressure on the governments to make regulations that can help save the planet.
Because it´s already too late for many species already,and more species go extinct every year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_transport#cite_note-pnas_pdf-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
I think @ocrdu was onto something too. I will go off and read your Wiki articles now. Thanks for passing by @kooshikoo