Salvador has expressed very well how globalization flies in the face of people's authentic needs and quality of life. I wonder when Harry will understand that happiness and satisfaction of producing and consuming is NOT about "saving" a few miserable bucks (always at the expense of someone else or the commons), and that we can't eat money.
Saludos, Chris Salvador Sánchez wrote: >I have to say that I do not look for cheaper things or lower prices. I pay >what I have to pay for products and services, thinking not only in my >immediate needs and desires but in the future of my children, of the >country and of the society as a whole. So I am very careful about the >globalization discourse, about the benefits of the internalization of the >economy. What's the real price of destroying a secular commercial >structure, closely tied to the community structure, of loosing the skills >that cost so much effort to get (mechanical skills, for example), even of >changing the face of towns and neighborhoods (to say the less) to have the >chance of buying cheap chinese (or mexican, or wherever) products in a >Wal-Mart? >One additional point: in Aeromexico and Mexicana, our two biggest >airlines, you still can find a smiling crew and good service. And decent >snaks and beverages. Their owners are about to sell it. Some big business >is going to come and get it, maybe Iberia. Good bye to good service. Good >bye to the smiling on board personnel. For a lot of people good bye to >their jobs. For many of those who can keep their jobs, good bye to the >pleasure of working as a pilot or as a flight attendant, or as a mechanic >or as a clerk. And we will save two or three --or one hundred, it´s the >same-- miserable dollars while somebody somewhere gets even richer at our >expense. I will be very happy to pay what I have to pay, believe me. >Salvador ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
