The rich "create" jobs.
(I know, not particularly profound.)
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Dear Jack,
ReplyDeleteNotre Dame student here. our school will be graced by the presence of Thomas Friedman in a week to discuss "the Global Market Place and the Common Good." i was planning to attend, just for kicks. if you have a question you might want to put to him, ill take it into consideration when Q&A time comes (if it does).
Peace,
and yes this place drives me crazy
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteYou honor me beyond any measure I could possibly merit. Thank you.
What would I ask the Mustache of Understanding?
It wouldn't actually be something very useful or worthy of your time.
If I had a shot at Friedman, I would just ask him - for someone so well traveled, with such wide access to so many key players throughout the centers of power in Europe, Asia and the Americas - how come he never manages to see anything clearly. Right before his eyes, he can see the standardization of economic culture. It's homogenization, really. I would wager that almost anyone can see it.
So why does he, for all his celebration of globalization, still pretend that the connection of elites using new technologies represents a qualitative alteration of human society?
The rich almost always resemble each other, especially if they have contact with each other. A duke in medieval England didn't much differ from one in the Low Countries. A merchant prince in colonial Boston shared a fairly strong cultural and economic overlap with one in post-Hansa Lubeck.
How does he miss this, I guess would be my question.
Thank you, and respect to you,
Jack