If that should occur, the future of North America and Europe may look a lot like the present of Brazil and Mexico, with nepotistic oligarchies clustered in a few swollen metropolitan areas surrounded by hinterlands that are derelict, depopulated, and despised. What Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), with its managers in skyscrapers and its oppressed factory workers underground, was for an earlier industrial era, Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium (2013), with its sybaritic elite in orbit and its desperate earthbound slum-dwellers, might prove to be for the era that succeeds neoliberalism—a prophecy in the form of a nightmare.
Only power can check power. Only a major reassertion of the political power, economic leverage, and cultural influence of national wage-earning majorities of all races, ethnicities, and creeds can stop the degeneration of the US and other Western democracies into high-tech banana republics. To supplement conventional electoral politics, reformers will need to rebuild old institutions or build new ones that can integrate working-class citizens of all origins into decision-making in government, the economy, and the culture, so that everyone can be an insider.
Reconstructing democratic pluralism in North America and Europe to permit cross-class power sharing is a challenge as difficult as it is urgent. The alternative is grim: a future of gated communities and mobs led by demagogues at their gates.
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“Başka bir ihtimali bir an bile düşünmedim. Sen benimsin, Era. Senin olduğun her yer benim gökyüzüm.”
In an era of excess supply, companies lack pricing leverage as never before. As such, businesses must be unrelenting in their search for new efficiencies. Not surprisingly, the primary focus of such efforts is labor, representing the bulk of production costs in the developed world; in the US, for example, worker compensation still makes up nearly 80% of total domestic corporate income. And that’s the point: Wage rates in China and India range from 10% to 25% of those for comparable-quality workers in the US and the rest of the developed world. Consequently, offshore outsourcing that extracts product from relatively low-wage workers in the developing world has become an increasingly urgent survival tactic for companies in the developed economies.
-işte o meşhur kırılma anı!*
después de decirme tantas veces que mentir era lo peor del mundo y que era un y todo eso, una mañana mi padre dijo una mentira.
Sayfa 9 - ediciones sm (yaani diyor ki: yalan söylemenin dünyadaki en kötü şey olduğunu, günah olduğunu ve buna benzer bir sürü şeyi bana defalarca söyledikten sonra; bir sabah babam bir yalan söyledi.")·Kitabı okuyor
Dante'yi okuyordum. İlahi Komedya'nın ilk satırları içime saplandı.
"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita."
"Hayat yolculuğumun tam ortasında kendimi karanlık bir ormanda buldum; doğru yol kaybolmuştu."
