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the steam engine, the age of science and mass production, and the rise of digital technology.
Globalization in essence is companies and governments climbing onto the world stage and interacting internationally.
Globalization has helped some, but it has also hurt a lot, specifically through:
- Making the rich richer
- Removing trade barriers only for new ones to rise (VAT taxes, etc.)
- Increased trade deficits with many jobs leaving their developed nations for less developed ones (U.S. manufacturing to China, etc.)
- Developed country job pay cuts
- MNC's leaving countries and exploiting international tax havens
- MNC's overseeing bad work conditions in countries with less regulations
- MNC's influencing international politics
- Exploitation of labor
- Social welfare schemes
Et cetera, et cetera...
All the problems we hear about with companies leaving their countries and stranding thousands if not millions of people without jobs, and labor issues in other countries all stem from globalization. So we need to decide if the benefits outweigh the costs here or not...
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Manifest destiny is a belief that many people in America at that time held. This belief made them convinced that they're somehow destined by God to spread democracy and capitalism to the rest of North America. The people at that time belief that it's the only correct system to ensure the freedom of all citizens.
But due to the large size of its territory, it is difficult to reach many different areas in north America. Railroad companies already exists. But, most of them only operates within one state. This problem was somehow solved by the creation of Transcontinental Railroad.
The transcontinental railroad was built with the intention to create a pathway connect all part of North America. It is an important infrastructure for the American people to create settlements in every corner of the country. This helped them spread the ideologies as intended in Manifest Destiny.
