David Morris spoke at Riverside Church for the International Forum on Globalization in 1995 about local self-reliance and global trade. His words still ring true today.
In his 15-minute speech, David maintains that globalization, gigantism, and absentee ownership were not inevitable but the result of public policies. We make the rules, and the rules make us. And the rules we’ve made, especially over the last 50 years, have enabled and encouraged an economic and political system where those who make the rules are separated from those who feel the impact of those rules.
David Morris in his 1995 speech to the International Forum on Globalization — “The Secret Side of Global Trade”“We have, in brief, built a society in which we’ve separated those who make the decisions from those who feel the impact of those decisions. And that is a prescription, not only for tyranny and widespread insecurity, but for very poor decisionmaking.”
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