革命者
28th April 2003, 14:13
(..)Globalization should be an opportunity for the poor, but it often does not work that way. Globalization opens markets, but markets can confer their benefits only on those they include. The poorest are almost by definition excluded, except at the lowest level of market operations.
A wage-based market economy tends to drive up the price of essential goods and services including food, water, housing and energy, while wages at the low end do not keep pace, and the non-waged see even low-cost goods move out of their reach. "Liberalizing" the market for necessities has actually driven people into poverty, not rescued them from it. Markets are aimed at maximizing profit, not attacking poverty. (..)
A wage-based market economy tends to drive up the price of essential goods and services including food, water, housing and energy, while wages at the low end do not keep pace, and the non-waged see even low-cost goods move out of their reach. "Liberalizing" the market for necessities has actually driven people into poverty, not rescued them from it. Markets are aimed at maximizing profit, not attacking poverty. (..)