{"id":52447,"date":"2020-04-13T08:28:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52447"},"modified":"2020-04-13T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:28:36","slug":"coronavirus-shutdown-the-end-of-globalization-and-planned-obsolescence-enter-multipolarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52447","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Shutdown: The End of Globalization and Planned Obsolescence \u2013 Enter Multipolarity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/04\/12\/coronavirus-shutdown-end-globalization-and-planned-obsolescence-enter-multipolarity\/\">Coronavirus Shutdown: The End of Globalization and Planned Obsolescence \u2013 Enter Multipolarity<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the twin processes of globalization and planned obsolescence are deficient and moribund. Globalization was predicated on a number of assumptions including the perpetuity of consumerism, and the withering away of national boundaries as transnational corporations so required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we see instead is not a globalization process, but instead a process of rising multipolarity and a rethinking of consumerism itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally a total market crash and unemployment crisis would usher in a period of militant labor activity, strikes, walk-outs and community-labor campaigns.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/30\/business\/economy\/coronavirus-instacart-amazon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We\u2019ve seen some of this already<\/a>. But the \u2018medical state of emergency\u2019 we are in, has effectively worked like a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lockout_(industry)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018lock-out\u2019<\/a>. The elites have effectively flipped-the-script. Instead of workers now demanding a restoration of wages, hours, and work-place rights, they are clamoring for any chance to work at all, under any conditions handed down. Elites can \u2018afford\u2019 to do this because they\u2019ve been given trillions of dollars to do so. See how that works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All our lives we\u2019ve been misinformed over what a growing economy means, what it looks like, how we identify it. All our lives we\u2019ve been lied to about what technical improvement literally means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A growing economy in fact means that all goods and services become less expensive. That cuts against inflation. Rather all prices should be deflating \u2013 less money ought to buy the same (or the same money ought to buy more). Technical innovation means that goods should last longer, not be planned for obsolescence with shorter lifespans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unemployment is good if it parallels price deflation. If both reached a zero-point, the problems we believe we have would be solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Shutdown: The End of Globalization and Planned Obsolescence \u2013 Enter Multipolarity The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the twin processes of globalization and planned obsolescence are deficient and moribund. Globalization was predicated on a number of assumptions including the perpetuity of consumerism, and the withering away of national boundaries as transnational corporations so required. 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