Blogalization

Though it's natural to fear the unknown, the globalization of society is usually a change I can accept with more enthusiasm than apprehension. The drawbacks of a globalized society would most likely be a deterioration of unique cultures as well as the obvious outsourcing of labor and its effect on the economies of the industrialized nations doing the outsourcing. However, all of the benefits of a globalized society seem intuitive; a more peaceful world is to be expected when every country has a vested economic interest in the well-being of every other country, and a supposed downside of globalization, a loss of nationalism, would very much serve to bring about world peace. Without nationalism, that basis for hatred and oppression would cease to exist. In the current world economy it is reasonable to fear globalization's ability to undermine unions for the sake of achieving the cheapest possible labor but that is only because we are in a transitional phase. When workers' unions become globalized as well, the laborers in third world countries will have the same claim to superior working standards and human rights as those in progressive nations with the highest quality of life among workers. The benefits of this far outweigh the drawbacks; I have no doubt we will inevitably see transnational cooperation among workers around the world. Sweatshops will reside in antiquity and the disparity between the salaries of the upper class and those in poverty will dwindle as fair trade will supercede free trade; a reasonable, global minimum wage, once established, would eat away at the ridiculous profit margins of the Fortune 500 and an educated middle class would emerge and thrive. Once we reach such a point of globalization, the benefits are self-perpetuating and will constantly improve; never will any governmental or corporate entity overstep its boundries in a world where there was such a risk of a revolt from a capable people, nor will they have the abundant power necessary as they do today. Globalization might very well be the best thing to ever happen to us as a society.