Originally Posted by ImmortalPig
That's a problem of regulation in China, not an inherent problem of globalisation.
It's a problem whenever you have countries that can export more cheaply and dirtily than others, and it's both logically obvious and demonstrably true. Globalization has enabled this environmentally damaging phenomenon. Either dispute that with arguments or accede it, but don't waste time pretending the real world consequences of economic interconnectivity aren't important because in some purist conceptual fantasy they aren't an "inherent" result.
Originally Posted by ImmortalPig
And how exactly does willingness to do a job that no one wants to hire them to do valid?
I'm just going to pause and drink in the sweet irony of smugly writing "Your argument doesn't make any sense." and then immediately following up with a totally incoherent sentence.
The problem with you is that you immediately pick a viewpoint based on a poor general understanding and then refuse to adjust it based on any new information, which is great if you want to plug your ears and pompously assert your general right-ness in the face of disagreement from others and experts and data and rationale and...everything really, but after three or four posts it's just boring.
This is extraordinarily simple, and you've managed to bog it down for far too long because you pretend real world context and nuance doesn't exist and go "it's not an
inherent result of globalization." Who cares? On planet Earth the fact that industry and jobs are going overseas to bastions of corruption and poor worker treatment such as India and China is a problem, and however you want to categorize it or define it obviously the opening and interplay of international markets is a major factor, if not the sole one.
What's really cute is that in your rush to disagree with two people at once you simultaneously argue that a) there are no negative consequences of globalization and b) the negative consequences of globalization are easily overcome through adaptation. While this gratuitous failure of reason is pretty funny, simply acknowledging it is enough to do away with point a.
As to point b, your suggestions to overcome this disappearance of mid to low class jobs have been as follows:
-Enter fields that cannot be outsourced
A good enough idea, except those fields are saturated, especially after the economic downturn of the past few years. Side note, you referenced IT as one of those fields just in case readers were under the mistaken impression you knew what you were talking about.
-Get a first world education and a high skill job. Everyone be a doctor/lawyer/engineer/executive!
I shouldn't have to explain why this is not founded in reality, as it ignores financial/opportunity costs and the fact that simply existing in a first world country in no way guarantees a good education or possible upward social mobility. Actually, this suggestion is so naive it's kind of childish. Why doesn't everyone just
become upper class?
If you have any other suggestions to remedy the issues, economists and policymakers are waiting with baited breath. To you they must seem very off base, suggesting protectionist measures or domestic subsidies or trade agreements, but I'm sure you can talk some sense into them. If you lead with the suggestion that the labor force diversify into artisan bakeries you'll have them turned around in no time.
Or they'll laugh at you.