Talking to the Wall

Saw this movie last night (see title), it was pretty good. It was kinda depressing and hope-inspiring at the same time. Really though, overall, I suppose it was depressing. Trying to fight these huge stores is nigh impossible. Especially since even if they don't come to your home town, the internet is already there. You can mail-order just about anything you can imagine. Really what keeping these people out amounts to is depressing the buying power of the poor and technologically backward.

I suppose it's more of a problem of globalization than anything. As long as companies can find cheaper labor, they'll move their production facilities there. What we really need is some sort of even playing field across the globe, with people earning similar wages worldwide for similar work. I don't think it's something that can be solved by politicians either, with their tariff wars and trade negotiations. I think the only thing that could possibly solve this problem is a general reconfiguration of the way people think and live.

Seeing how this is pretty much close to impossible, I'm going to remain depressed about the state of the global economy.

Although instantaneous global teleportation would make a huge change.. I think that's the true solution to globalization - remove the travel barriers (and language too, I guess). Information already travels instantaneously, and you can see how much things have changed since that's come about. It's half of what's caused this globalization crisis.