The reason we don’t see stronger action against Covid. The mostly meaningless word ‘globalisation’ is the…

The reason we don’t see stronger action against Covid. The mostly meaningless word ‘globalisation’ is the stripping away of all sovereignty and territorial and cultural definitions of society, and replacement by the unfettered flow of people and resources. What this means. /1 https://t.co/v4WBlB6GRl

As the graph shows, recent trends in the developed world show a rapid replacement of local workforces with imported, cheaper labour. (This is Australian data, from the APH.) Note the inverted scale for unemployment, temporary imported labour rose as…/2 https://t.co/h2q6DjmC4W

…local unemployment also rose. Substitution of Australian workers with cheaper imported labour. What this means for Covid is that the distinction between national and international society is being constantly removed by globalisation, by the politics of the economy. /3 https://t.co/6u8lMl1thm

This means much more than just economic things. It means this model of society now collapses any distinction between national and international, which is what the ‘economy’ was designed to do. Note many of these workers are sourced from the developing world. /4

Increasingly the governments of the developed world are substituting the old developing world models of doing things, into the developed world. It’s much cheaper for them. It allows them to bypass not just higher wages and working conditions, but also…/5

…as we see in the pandemic, to use the public health model from the developing world in the developed world too. And that model was always called the ‘endemic’ public health model, by which we meant ‘it’s entrenched there, there’s nothing we can do’. /6

This is why conservative politicians were so quick to use the word endemic in this pandemic. They’re importing not just the wages and working conditions from the developing world, but the do-nothing public health strategy from there too. It’s part of a much wider social shift. /7

This is what the politics of the economy was always going to produce. It’s in the name - globalisation. The intent always was to level all distinctions and differences across the world, in favour of the economy. Which in turn just means the stripping away of all barriers…/8

…to the continued accumulation of wealth of existing interests. The economy was invented as a substitute for traditional politics, by that group. Every social and political issue is immediately assessed by its impact on the ‘economy’. it’s now so entrenched that everybody…/9

…just says it, without even thinking. While this set of beliefs runs our societies, expect to see increasing ‘levelling up’ of global life, but what will be levelled up is the conditions in the developing world, expanded to the entire world. /end