"Neuromancer," says novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow, "remains a vividly imagined allegory for the world of the 1980s, when the first seeds of massive, globalised wealth-disparity were planted, and when the inchoate rumblings of technological rebellion were first felt.
Perhaps the next World Cup should be held in the United Arab Emirates, where the ICC now have their headquarters, a globalised nowhere zone of limitless wealth and stark, authoritarian rules and regulations.
In a globalised knowledge economy, he argues, the wealth of a country will increasingly depend on highly skilled individuals.
The manner in which a self-serving, globalised elite has siphoned off society's wealth is indefensible.
Also, the well-off have less incentive to lobby for reforms at home if they are free to store their wealth overseas.Perhaps, then, the gains from globalised finance are latent and will be unleashed once catalysing reforms are in place?
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While post-industrial Britain is defined by "a more hostile attitude to asset wealth; stronger local identities – which become fractious where the labour market is globalised".
Swan says the evidence both in Australia and globally suggests tackling inequality is an important part of achieving wealth creation and growth when technological disruption is causing dislocation in the globalised economy.
We're seeing what happened in Hollywood in the 20s or to Italian cinema in the 50s – there is a creative universe which is exciting, full of rage and suddenly the plutocracy from a globalised world comes in and says 'Oh, we think you're so great, you're the flag of our wealth or our power.' And then you decide where you want to stand, and that's not necessarily where they're going to put you".
"This is a globalised era.
