Comments on: Pressing Home the Benefits of Globalization

By: floyd

floyd — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:08:39 +0000

Interesting presentation, the article, however, is a non sequitur to the title.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:11:14 +0000

If people look no deeper than the sparkly graphics, it becomes all the easier to please them while hiding uncomfortable data.

That's one of my misgivings, too, John.

By: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III

Zelsdorf Ragshaft III — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:58:39 +0000

So long as the U.S. Constitution is the law of the land and the U.S. maintains it sovereignty, their might be some advantages to a move in the direction of globalization, but to equalize, you must remove from some to give to others, and if you try to take mine, bring a gun cause I will.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:02:39 +0000

I absolutely love the good use of graphics to demonstrate data. But I think we may need to keep a few literate folks around just to make sure that the graphics aren't just the result of cool graphic arts and artists and their tools!

If people look no deeper than the sparkly graphics, it becomes all the easier to please them while hiding uncomfortable data.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:25:29 +0000

Of course there's a downside. There's a downside for every choice. But I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages and the presentation is a wonderful illustration.

Additionally, I think that many of the anti-globalization arguments rely on untrue assumptions e.g. that the jobs in question would not have been lost in any case or that protecting the jobs wouldn't have had a downside of its own.

By: MarkT

MarkT — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:07:07 +0000

the anti-globalization pitches are simply untrue

Really? There's no downside to globalization? Cool! As with the PETA story from a few days ago, if you don't explicitly acknowledge that there is a downside, then you tacitly approve of the hardship faced by displaced workers as their jobs move overseas. More seriously... The video you linked to is great. I do training for a living and the video made the rounds of all my trainer friends a few years back. There is a whole .org for "visual thinkers" that you might like to connect with: ifvp.