Now that we’re beginning to get into the specific ideas of globalization, I’ve started thinking about the big question that I want to write about. What’s important? What do we need to know? What’s worth thinking about? At first, I intended to discuss something very factual, real, researchable, etc. In a world where the foremost competition is for capital, not jobs, our government doesn’t seem to “get it.” They waste their time on mid-term elections and unimportant issues while both companies and investors are leaving for better opportunities overseas. What do American politicians need to do to encourage investors to come back, or at least keep the remaining ones, without restricting them? What happens to our own economy when investors are much more interested in China? If that’s our own fault, how can we fix it? This is all very interesting and important, but nothing new. Then I thought of something a little more interesting- more theoretical- to consider.

As globalization erases national boundaries and increases interaction and collaboration between people in different countries, all over the world, what is the end result? Multinational corporations hold more sway over the world than most governments. It seems that it’s businesses that run our own country. So tell me, how implausible really is the Sovereign State of Microsoft? Is it really that hard to see a world where land is just land, and people pledge their allegiance to a company rather than a border? Right now, yes, it is. It seems sick to us. How could a privatized world be held to any code of law or ethics? My main question is: is this even possible? If it is, could a government of a business administration fighting to protect their employees for the sake of morale and efficiency work just as well, if not better than a government run by taxes, protecting citizens by their birthright?

Of course, there are so many questions, and so many supposed flaws. What’s the universal standard? How is a crime of an employee of Company A against an employee of Company B handled? What about the unemployed? How do people begin new businesses? Law enforcement? Surely there has to be some sort of domestic control. People can’t live on the internet. Could a global, universally capitalist, stable, econocentric society ever possibly work? Rather than talk about what people already know, the answer to this question is what I hope to develop as best I can.