How Has Transportation Affected Globalization?

From sailboats to supersonic jets, transportation has shrunk the world and fueled globalization. This article explores how advances in movement — of people, goods, and ideas — transformed economies, connected cultures, and reshaped global interactions.
Read it here: https://www.djoinerbooks.com/how-has-transportation-affected-globalization/
#Globalization #Transportation #WorldHistory #Innovation

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484

this is what happens when #GenX #yuppies run the world.

every single GenX milliardaire is a "fuck you, got mine" genocidal maniac; groomed by corporatists to be the sociopaths they are today.

yuppies promised they'd use #globalization to turn Life into money with tech. now, those who don’t control the tech ―we, the capital-less masses―, are financial soylent green to them.

SOLAR PUNK
TECH SOVEREIGNTY
COOPERATIVISM
DE-FINANCIALIZED MUTUAL AID

is how we fight yuppie scum & #fascism

Lessons in #antifascism: understanding 21st century right wing populism.

Lesson 1:

The very first attack is directed against #globalization and #universalism. It divides the world into parts ("plurality").

Its own part of the world is explained in a compulsory worldview that starts from experience and rejects #theory and #science (and with it, elites, intellectuals, etc.)

It orders its part of the world along analogies and oppositions. It naturalizes culture and animates nature.

"The entire ideology which underpins international economic relations has to be rethought. Perhaps we have to create a new system which would allow for trade blocs and tariff rates, no labor migration, and no transfer of technology but it has to be codified and explained to the rest of the world. Yet nobody has so far as much as mentioned that we (the world) need to create such a new system. This is why we are currently in the situation where the rules do not exist anymore. They are being treated in an entirely ad hoc manner: a certain set of rules are being used in one country or in one set of countries and other rules are being used in another set of countries. All of this is justified on the grounds of national interest. This is not an illegitimate position to take but one has to be clear about what it implies. It implies the return to mercantilistic policies where the interests of individual countries are paramount. It also means the abandonment of any cosmopolitan and internationalist perspective where the rules are at least in principle universal. We no longer have universal rules and the main culprit for not having universal rules is not Trump, but the view of the world where domestic political interest and the so-called security concerns are above everything else. This is not a world of globalization, but of parceled regionalisms and even nationalism."

https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/how-the-mainstream-has-abandoned/

#Neoliberalism #Globalization #Economy #Economics #Nationalism #Tariffs #TradeWar #Protectionism

"The cultural markers of identity we cherish most jealously – our cuisines, religions, languages and social mores – are products of past globalisations. When we celebrate such cultural markers as ‘authentic’ elements of our identities, we are effectively celebrating our shared human culture, born of a long chain of encounters and exchanges."

"Mobility requires freedom of movement. This is a fundamental right we often overlook as we focus our attention on the valuable freedoms that we gained more recently – freedom of thought, belief and expression. Free movement secured our survival and allowed us to flourish on a planet we were not originally adapted to inhabit so widely. Forgetting this precious right makes it easier to succumb to the dominant ideology of rooted difference."

https://aeon.co/essays/there-are-no-pure-cultures-we-have-always-been-global

#Globalization #Identity #Humanity

Why globalization failed so many Americans and why we must defend it in the face of burgeoning economic nationalism. This was a dense read, but well worth it! Review-> #BookThreads #BookSky #BookReview #TheWorldsWorstBet #Globalization #PublicAffairs #NetGalley #ARCReview #DavidJLynch

http://bargain-sleuth.com/2025/12/27/%f0%9f%93%9a%f0%9f%8c%8ethe-worlds-worst-bet-how-the-globalization-gamble-went-wrong-bookreview-publicaffairs-arcreview-currentaffairs/

The Tax Shell Game

In 1982, I went to work for a multinational corporation. It was quite open in how it moved money around to reduce taxes:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=17

I suspect the tax-minimization techniques have improved since then.

We need a new way.

#tiereddeemocraticgovernance
#globalization