Well, it's untrue that globalization is a binary true or false benefit, though on the surface it's a logical question.
Until you consider sovereignty. Particularly food sovereignty. It's more than strategic, it's the foundation of a stable, rule-of-law society. So it’s more than economics, it's a governmental social responsibility, and self-preservation.
Supply management is a success in Canada, despite some problems, because it stabilizes society, as more small farms is more desirable in many ways than big centralized ag.
And you are right, there are a number of economic sectors we could look more closely at with a mind towards sovereignty, maybe including footwear and furniture, though food and medicines come first.
Try the apps, they might work? Not sure. There's Gem which is video and CBC Listen which has news, great radio journalism and podcasts, and music playlists.
If that doesn't work just seek out the many CBC podcasts, I recommend starting with Ideas for lecture or documentary style, or Quirks and Quarks for short form science journalism.
Ah, good point, trade liberalization like this is best supported by equalizing access for smaller producers. Example: via support programs for smaller producers in the way of funding for, or even direct establishment of, co-op style distributors with scaled agreements for transport and processing.
They are tanking markets for both the fire sale bargains and to hurt the poor more, so they can direct the resulting anger towards projects like territorial expansion and government privatization.
You got advice to study some history from me and didn't say -ok where to start- you just disengage from the criticism. Maybe it's valid? Start there?
Plan, then act. Read Wikipedia about tactics and strategies for democratic development. Read about the ties between conservatism and the aristocracy for all history and realize that the only classes that matter are the workers who sell labour for money and owners who make money through control and exploitation of resources and workers.
You want to be an ally it sounds like. Well, advice to any ally of colonial resistance: decolonize your mind. Read Fanon or Zinn, e.g., or go watch old episodes of Beau of the Fifth Column or something, it depends on who you are -- and you aren't sharing that.
Canadians have been colonized by England AND the USA. The geopolitics are cultural as well. Maybe we're justifiably touchy about people from an authoritarian colonizer complaining that we don't trust them as much when there’s common talk in the streets about ukraining us?
Find others who are opposing fascism and work with them
This is a conversation, bud. You came in here whining about trying to dodge responsibility instead of saying "I am just a retail worker who plays DnD when I am not looking after my sister" whereupon you get help. Plus you got advice and ignored it.
If 10% more voters showed up it being somewhat rigged wouldn’t have mattered.
Even though the media is owned by billionaires, if people talked about this shit and resisted aristocratic bullshit, it wouldn’t have mattered, the monarchists would have been held back. Too late now, resistance is the last hope for democracy.
Voting and selective consumption…. That’s the barest definition of citizenhood. Resisting an aristocracy is always going to require more than that. Not everyone can be a dedicated activist but c’mon, some perspective from history here.
Yes, exactly: politics being an alien subject is the result of ideology. It’s deeply ideological. It must be addressed in day to day interactions and in culture and by educators and at kitchen tables. No one can fix it but the individual pushing forward together with friends.
Yes well most of those fears were based in a distinct lack of application of the precautionary principle in the way the industry was being run and regulated, as well as misdirection when representing the methods being used. So there was no way for citizens to know whether things were safe or not, other than an appeal to authority, but driven by shareholder interests.
So I don’t blame people for worrying, though I was always more concerned about the biopiracy and other corporate shenanigans.
This is a great list, and considering I am approaching old, happy to report that it's almost like my non-work CV. Feeling nearly prepped, never fully.
ADHD has been good for gathering a basic set of skills in a wide range of situations.
Next is to play with community mesh networks and work on the Ham radio experience.