In this increasingly globalized world, there are constant tensions between the countries that (have), and the countries that have not. Well at least they are portrayed as tensions. But is there really tension, or is it the release of tension and the necessary growing-pains of globalization that we are witnessing? I view it as the latter.
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There are two main arguments against globalization. One is that globalization allows economically powerful countries such as the United States to exploit the poor workers of less powerful countries such as India for example. The other argument is that less educated workers in economically powerful countries risk losing their jobs to cheaper labor forces in those aforementioned less powerful countries.
While the second argument does have great validity, there are solutions to the problem short of vast economic protectionism (which has been a catalyst for wars in the past). The first argument is much less valid, especially when looking at the validity of the second argument. The reality is that workers in underdeveloped countries have the world to gain from increased globalization, specifically they have higher paying jobs to gain that once belonged to workers in developed nations. I hardly see this as a problem. It is a fact that multinational companies, often originating in first world countries, pay their workers more than competing employers who are indigenous.
