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It's Yamato News! tis i, thy Guestbook. sign me View Guestbook Got you on my counter - sucker! did you know? it is true. come have tea and duck with yamato news! VIEW PICTURES! January 2004 March ~ October 2003 What's Baby Guillermo up to? Mail me! Need + Greed = Power Globalization: a complex schema, I don’t know where to even begin. It’s the future. Today, the literal definition means “applied across the globe”. It is often coupled with Americanization (other words known as capitalism) and pressured economically critical decisions. To really understand what globalization is, you must uncover its source. It is fueled by need and greed. These two components have become the basis of globalization and without either one it would seize to exist. Abraham Maslow in 1943 believed humans to be motivated by unsatisfied needs. His philosophy is still taught to students today. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence to support his claim. I have yet to meet someone who does not need something. Out of this need philosophy was born capitalism. This economic system was vastly improved by convenience with the invention of money. Money intrigues me in so many ways. It is a tangible figment of our imagination, value, yet we all agree on it. Are we just all insane? Its survival depends solely upon its users’ faith in it. Our faith gives money its purchasing power and in return we are able to use it. When money has purchasing power it opens up the door for opportunity. Because the dollar has this power, America is thought as the land of opportunity. Since humans think alike in many ways thus needing similar things and are willing to pay money, people who see opportunity are able to cash in on them. Where did these people learn to “see” opportunity? Is this sixth sense learned or innate? If this sense is in fact innate, than those who do not have it are SOL. But I believe it to be learned in which case, whose responsibility is it to teach or learn? This is where greed steps in. Greed is to keep something unnecessary to you away from those who need it. It is a form of feeling special. How much money is enough? To most of us Americans, the question would be unanswerable because we would always want more. When faced with a situation where money is overflowing our pockets we simply decide that we need deeper pockets. This idea that more is better is instilled in us and is seen through capitalism. Capitalism thrives with growth. Although capitalism could survive without growth why would we want it to? Why stop when the sky is the limit? To invent a new product or to make it better, to discover what people are secretly needing, to bring convenience, to uncover a market ready to spend, is what capitalism stands for at any cost. In an economic society where the free market dictates the profitable, people will give anything to influence the majority to vote them that number one spot. Since with responsibility comes liability with (what is seen to be) no gain, every company avoids it, ending with no one accountable for their actions. There becomes a lack of conscience where the idea of selfless giving is unimaginable. The words giving and gaining become synonymous. Greed without punishment is a combination for disaster. Pareto’s principle (also known as 80/20 rule) observes the vital few vs. the trivial many. Luckily, there are a few regulations that keep it from becoming the 95/5 rule but are these regulations sufficient? There is nothing stopping someone from having a company exploit a human. As of now, the bottom line for any company is monetary profits, the more money the better. When we come to the day that a company chooses loyalty and responsibility over saving 20¢ for each labor hour a new revolution will come about.