The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

false 1911 0374292795 9780374292799 9033 1426 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159164170m/1911.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat_A_Brief_History_of_the_Twenty_First_Century 18675 Thomas L. Friedman 18021 3121 1 11 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jun 10 13:59:57 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 21:10:11 -0800 2009
His view of globalization is that now, thanks to the paternalistic global order constructed by US multinational corporations, there is cultural and monetary things of worth out there in the vast unexplored jungles of savagery called "not the United States." As an ahistorical text that ignores the fact that elites have been trading from Occident to and from Orient for hundreds of years, the book ignores entirely the poor.

How wonderful it is to be ruling class in this new era, where poor people from all over the world can service the rich like Friedman. What an asshole.]]>