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Does economic globalization promote democracy or consolidate dictatorship? David Dubois


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Angaangaq Lyberth: It is really fascinating to talk about democracy. As you know we have very little democracy anywhere on Earth. What democracy is supposed to be- free choice for being able to be governed by free choice. Meaning that I cannot promote myself to be better trustworthy than my next one. That’s what we do right now. For every election we do we push someone down. How can democracy be based on putting someone down? And then we talk about the economy. Economy is not really what it should be because right now the economy is based on who has more and competition, not a division of wealth. When you look at the world today you see the extremities of wealth to the extreme powerful. So the economic globalization has not lifted up the spirit of the people. We have never seen so many poor people today than we have had before. At the same time there has never been so much money available to the world. So things are not right. And when we don’t have the democracy and we’re trying to get rid of the dictatorship but we’re just replacing everything with the old stuff. Nothing new has come to the world or us. The economic globalization means very little to the citizens of the globe. And yes, of course, a country like Africa, continents like Africa who is the wealthiest continent has the poorest people on Earth. When you look at the kind of resources being extracted from this land and how little comes to the people you get astounded. So what did we do with the globalization? Nothing for the people.