to illustrate: this christmas , my son bought me a Heap Of underwear. he bought seven pairs; yes , one for each day of the week. of the seven , all current models and inventory , two were made in india; three were made in china; and two were made in thailand. what does this tell us? it clearly illustrates that the co-operation; the globalization that friedman speaks of is largely dependent upon cost…which must reach a finite point. at a Heap Of cost point , no manufacturer volition be competent to go ogle. that is why there is no loyalty in these three markets for the smear. but what then is left to manipulate in the market? service? future concessions? packaging? shipping? smear loyalty (you can find smear loyalty in the consumer but not in the middleman.)
friedman also overlooks the psychology of the typical chinese middleman as advantageously as the typical consumer in china. it is an ongoing trend that we gift to globalization processes , that china and to a Heap Of extent , outside of the service industry india and thailand hold been gift upon providing slavish cost to its customers. but how volition it end?
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the fragile mandarins in a flat world: here is where friedman really displays his lack of inquest skills. the girlish , upwardly mobile , recently arrived or latter day millionaires are not curious in what friedman calls ‘levelling’ or ‘flattening’ processes. (i volition implement friedman’s terms here flat though their inadequacy is advantageously poignantly laid out by matt taibbi , recent york press , 2007.)
they achieve not lack or poverty a flat playing field in their hold country. certainly , such an environment is desirable in the rest of the earth where they would be treated as equivalent opportunists , but in china they recognize the competitive elements provided by an ‘un-even’ playing field. they lack the status quo , where they are treated as the favoured ones; not democracy.
cursed , as the privileged just child , these mandarins are sick equipped for competitive virtue. they hold been brought up to expect to instantly accept , any poverty or lack they can hold. yet in this special sociable favoured course we hold three sub-classes; one not envisioned by freidman. most children (97%) are from ‘one-child families’. many families , both bad (not Good) and affluent , hold further than one child , but they hire a cost. the three sub-classes are: privileged , under-privileged and mediocre (we won’t cognomen them middle course , because technically they are not. what we would usually clamor middle course , i.e. those who can stay comfortably as a result of their livelihood are in china’s case , the privileged.)
here , the mediocre , are a very large and vast problem , representing 53.6% of the population (annual gross Income below 24 , 000 rmb , $3 , 285.00) (li peilin , head of the finance originate at cass , 2007-6). just 3% of the population regarded themselves in the privileged course and the balance of people regarded themselves in the under-privileged course , 43.4% , a half a billion people). oddly , the privileged course regarded themselves as pathetic downward in the last three years.
we can refer to this 53.6 percent as the mediocre course. those occupations which accept diminishing rewards due to their redundancy and what can be referred to as their fungible status. and this course is a command result of the higher education system which is ill-equipped to present learning material or scholastic criteria required to cultivate individual excellence. the concept of ‘individual excellence’ is not the same as we in the west strength intuit. in china , individual excellence can just be measured by flock marks , not as to quality of intelligence , which is to state , insignificant.
the needs and wants of this mediocre course , (i am reminded by a line in the film , amadeus , where salieri , f. murray abraham , states , “it is a sin to reward the mediocre.”) cannot be regarded as similar to our natural and collective reason of the word. here ‘mediocre’ must include the notions of hopelessness , vulnerability and fragility. this sub-class , the mediocre , does not hold the option to compete; they are incapable; the privileged course has no motive to compete and the under-privileged course has no possibility to compete either in a flat earth or any other shaped earth. in fact they all prefer a rotund earth , where they understand the forging factors of ‘them’ versus ‘us’ (or me , in this case.)
how volition these chinese sub-classes fare in a ‘flat world’? friedman devotes his definition of ‘flat earth commerce’ to goods by in large. services , which are the rising product category in china’s recent economy , volition account for 70% of the gdp by 2020 , which volition match the international common of developed countries. it is those in the mediocre course who volition fulfill the task of providing these services and any task that can be relegated to the past by digitalization , automation or outsourcing volition be missing , causing the populations of the mediocre to drop to the under-privileged classes which volition breaker and as notorious above , countenance unclaimed opportunities.
the privileged course , recollect , is ill-equipped to compete upon an individual scales as the technocrats of india are; where individuality is praised and differentiated and subsequently rewarded.
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