Economic consequence is assumed by dystopian view as an inevitable consequence, including deterioration, unemployment, Like in Orwell's novel,the proles, over generations, have become content with their undignified animal-like life cycles of birth in poverty, consumption of whatever is available, breeding by thoughtless impulse, and death at sixty.
hyper-competition. globalization means that if your job can be done by someone half a world a way for a fraction of the cost, it will. I think implied within that is an idea of a rapidly widened rich-poor gap... because corporations don't really care about you in a hyper-competitive world, they get the profit and you get the pain.
I think of it as technology allows things to be done cheaper and more efficently this allows technology to become a tool of exclusive ruling elites (like big corporations lets say Wal Mart for example purposes) to impose control over the others because of dominance of efficiency and cost concerns. This causes individual to be expendable (out sourcing which causes loss of jobs), social cost (loss of privacy), and environmental costs (making things unrecyclable because it is cheaper and easier)
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Economic consequence is assumed by dystopian view as an inevitable consequence, including deterioration, unemployment, Like in Orwell's novel,the proles, over generations, have become content with their undignified animal-like life cycles of birth in poverty, consumption of whatever is available, breeding by thoughtless impulse, and death at sixty.
hyper-competition.
globalization means that if your job can be done by someone half a world a way for a fraction of the cost, it will.
I think implied within that is an idea of a rapidly widened rich-poor gap... because corporations don't really care about you in a hyper-competitive world, they get the profit and you get the pain.
I think of it as technology allows things to be done cheaper and more efficently this allows technology to become a tool of exclusive ruling elites (like big corporations lets say Wal Mart for example purposes) to impose control over the others because of dominance of efficiency and cost concerns. This causes individual to be expendable (out sourcing which causes loss of jobs), social cost (loss of privacy), and environmental costs (making things unrecyclable because it is cheaper and easier)
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