The World is Flat.

The world is flat. That is so true. With globalization in place, the world is definitely getting flatter each day. For example, you have a problem with your computer and you want to sort it out by calling the customer service centre. The person on the other end answers the phone and attends to your call efficiently. You are happy and satisfied because your computer problems have now been solved. But, you didn’t realize that you’ve just talk to a person who lives halfway across the world, say Mumbai. The thing with businesses today, their main goal is profit maximization, and by that it also means that they want to minimize costs as lower as possible. Hence, you have companies based in the UK having their calling centre in India. It is all in the name of minimizing production costs. Take China for example, almost 70-80% of manufactured goods in China are for the international market. I mean, that many products are not even made for China market.

While all of this is good because people in the developing countries can have jobs, things might not be looking too bright for people in the developed countries. They on the other hand, would lose their jobs. And it is simply because the company finds it cheaper to employ people elsewhere. Whether this is ethically correct or not, I’ll leave it to you to decide.

I would also like to offer my condolences to those families’ and friends’ who were killed in roof-collapsed tragedy in Katowice, Poland last Saturday. 66 people were found dead leaving 150 more people injured. Poland government has announced a 3-day-mourning period.

The question now is, how did this happen? Some says it’s because of the heavy snow on the roof, some says the freezing weather failed the steel beams. I don’t know the answer but I know that this kind of tragedy can be prevented in the future if only we look for the solution for it. Ciao ciao.

Comments

kaicito said…
i think it's very touching that you remember the people who died in Poland. this winter, thre actually have been several similar disasters, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale, with roofs of buildings caving in under snow. i have to believe that carelessness must have been involved in all of these incidents...but it may be premature to come to that conclusion.

as for globalization, i sometimes think this is a little bit the revenge of those third world and developing countries that were exploited by the european nations during colonization times... in the end, it will work towards making living standards more even around the world.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:47:00 AM
Adam Ahmad said…
carelessness is the issue now in Poland at this time. and although I also believe that globalization will bring higher standards of living in the developing countries, the portion of the developing countries who are taking part in the globalization process is very small. actually only 20-30 percent of the developing world are getting the benefits of international trade and globalaization. the rest? still trapped under the blanket of poverty.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:05:00 AM
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