Who is accountable, Wall Street, or China?

Who is accountable, Wall Street, or China?
…………………………………………Leechard
(Quest No.8252e 　　　　2011/10/10)


Now people are gathering around Wall Street, protesting the plutocrats of hurting their livelihood. Days before, politicians were still debating who is accountable for all the difficulties of America. It is an obvious game, once the accountable were found, then things will be immediately settled, at least, in the minds of those who do not know globalization.

Globalization has broken the tree.

In the good old days, economy was just like a tree. With roots on the ground, leaves under the sun, and fruits on the branches. On my library desk, there is still a very old Kodak photo-slide viewer, which was made in USA, probably in the late seventies. American designers designed it, American workers assembled the body. And it was sold to the Far East.

Now the tree is amputated.

If the machine is still marketable, it will be assembled somewhere in Asia, not in the States.

At first, there are some barriers between the countries, different laws, taxes, and customs, resisting the tree. Trees cannot grow so easily around the world.

But the barriers are fragile.

The European Union has taken away the barriers of money exchange, thus making the tree separated more easily. Southern countries like Greece exported their vegetables and fish to the North, and buy French TVs and German cars from them.

The EU is a small-scale globalization. Much bigger scale globalization happened elsewhere.

At first, this is a funny game of merry-go-round. Advanced countries pushed their dirty industries and labor-intensive industries to other countries. Business was an exquisite magic. Fashion patterns designed in the morning in France, stitched up somewhere in Asia in the afternoon, by nighttime, ladies were wearing them in New York.

If business was like a tree, now the tree had been broken into different parts all over the world.

What happen?

Humans were alienated from their roots. They lost their jobs.

And the question is not who is accountable.

The question is how can we deal with the tree-animal.





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