I don't know who to attribute this to but I've heard a saying:
"Countries that trade with each other don't make war with each other."
As we isolate countries and disrupt trade we definitely are increasing the risk of conflict.
"Countries that trade with each other don't make war with each other."
As we isolate countries and disrupt trade we definitely are increasing the risk of conflict.
I'm pretty sure this was the prevailing thinking prior to World War 1. A large scale conflict would be so damaging on a human and economic level that most assumed the people in power would find away to stop a massive war from breaking out. Well, they were right about the first assumption, but very wrong about the second.
There's plenty of good things from a moral perspective about power being diffused away from a hyperpower hegemon, but stability and peace have never been among the side effects.
Nobody really cares, except for those directly involved. Sad but true, nobody will ever go to war for that, for foreign citizens.
> I want my cheap plastic consumer devices!!
People do actually want that. And their cheap shoes and clothes and...
Foxconn's suicide rate is lower than China's, along with all 50 US states. They just employ a gargantuan amount of people (400k). I don't know much about the working conditions there, so I don't have a position, but it doesn't look like there's evidence to suggest that the working conditions have anything to do with the fact that some of their employees committed suicide.
To put it another way, there's roughly as much evidence of this as there is that working in a factory in Nigeria causes sickle cell anemia.
Page 25 (but see also page 23) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Fencing off tall buildings is a useful short-term suicide prevention measure.
Tons of CPP members are getting rich off the economy which includes a lot of trade and foreign debt.
There’s plenty of correlation here.
It's impossible to prove causality, but Europe has never seen longer and more widespread peace than the last 70 years.
But then you go on to claim that war among countries on the Western side was prevented by memories of war and not the EEC, without any reasoning as to why. I don't buy it. The first World War was already terrible, yet these countries were at each others' throats only a few decades later.
Here's what Otto Mallery said though:
"If soldiers are not to cross international boundaries, goods must do so. Unless the Shackles can be dropped from trade, bombs will be dropped from the sky."
This was a common argument as to why WWI couldn't happen, countries were far too economically dependent, everyone would be ruined.
Except it did happen, and everyone was ruined.
At worst, it was an affirmation repeated, as with most affirmations, in the hopes that the repetition would make it true, which it doesn't, and for the usual reason, that it generally wasn't.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers...
https://www.phactual.com/8-american-companies-that-worked-wi...
https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-american-companies-that-aided...