Globalization: Mwahahaha

After watching Noam Chompsky's presentaion about globalization, the part that stood out to me the most, was the situation where farmers and other small business owners can't afford to sell their products in their won countries, because they can't compete with the foreign competitors.

The image villifies large corporation owners and investors, by showing a man who seems to be possessed by money --his eyes are glowing green, the cigar smoke is green, symbolizing that everything revolves around green (money). I once had a sociology professor that said Capitalism is like a vampire, in that it cannot survive without sucking the blood of the poor or less fortunate; sucking blood of course is a metaphor for exploiting them.

From what he said, you obviously can tell he is very far left as far as politics are concerned, howeveer I do believe there is some truth to what he said. For example, some many corporations (if not all) pay their employees unfair wages, and the people who do the most work get paid the less; in general. The documentary The Corporation is pretty interesting and it offers a perspective on corporations and capitalism seldom explored; basically focusing on the negative aspect. (Its on youtube)

There was also an interesting was a documentary ( I think by Jamaica Kincaid) that explained the economic issues many Jamaicans faced after colonization. Basically, nearly the entire island was focused on producing banannas, and that they could hardly even sell them to people on the island, because of how far ahead their foreign competitors were by the time the country was independent.