I'd love to see some actual evidence of globalization and global commerce harming the world's poor.
Literally every shred of evidence I've seen points to the opposite: it has lifted people out of starvation agriculture into the lower classes.
We don't like seeing people in miserable conditions (and nobody denies that primitive manufacturing conditions are miserable), but that doesn't make them inferior to the silent misery of traditional agriculture. [1]
Just look at people's revealed preferences. To this day, millions of Chinese move from the agricultural hinterlands of the country (where farming looks largely the same as it has for centuries) towards the manufacturing centers along the coasts. If manufacturing is inferior to primitive village life, why do you think they're doing that?
I'd love to see some actual evidence of globalization and global commerce harming the world's poor.
Literally every shred of evidence I've seen points to the opposite: it has lifted people out of starvation agriculture into the lower classes.
We don't like seeing people in miserable conditions (and nobody denies that primitive manufacturing conditions are miserable), but that doesn't make them inferior to the silent misery of traditional agriculture. [1]
Just look at people's revealed preferences. To this day, millions of Chinese move from the agricultural hinterlands of the country (where farming looks largely the same as it has for centuries) towards the manufacturing centers along the coasts. If manufacturing is inferior to primitive village life, why do you think they're doing that?
[1] http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/smokey.html