Peter L. Berger Quotes

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and the right opportunities has also created extraordinary disruption and havoc among the American middle-class.

One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of American jobs overseas - reducing wages not only in manufacturing but also across the economy.

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Globalization has down sides because it leaves so many people behind.

Development was--and continues to be for the most part--a top-down, ethnocentric, and technocratic approach that treats people and cultures as abstract concepts, statistical figures to be moved up and down in the charts of 'progress.' ... It comes as no surprise that development became a force so destructive to third world cultures, ironically in the name of people's interests

Globalization: We get cheaper running shoes—You lose your job!

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.

The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North Carolina and Wallonia their jobs.

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed industrial jobs or exported them to low-wage economies. The loss of work had a devastating impact.

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?

The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

Job displacement is so huge, I'm tempted to not talk about anything other than that.

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

The factories that moved overseas used to provide not just high-paying jobs but also a sense of purpose and community.

Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.

The global capitalist project, which we are all a part of, leaves people behind. I don't know what the answers are - I don't think any actor does - but figuring it out through entertainment can be very useful.

You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.

I think that when voters react negatively to trade and investment, they are really expressing their angst about the pace of technological change.

Like so many free trade deals before and since, Nafta was sold as a massive opportunity for working people and their prospects. Forecasts spoke of hundreds of thousands of new jobs in all three countries. The reality could not have been more different.

What is happening with automation and globalization, that's not going away.

Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.

Offshoring is like the winter. You don't ask if it is good or bad - you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly.

I'm an entrepreneur trying to let the American people know that it's not immigrants that are causing economic problems, it is the fact that our economy is advancing in ways that is making human labor less and less essential.