"Consider now the plausible hypothesis that democratic institutions and
freedoms are viable only when supported by an economic affluence that is
achievable regionally but impossible globally. If this hypothesis is correct,
democracy and freedom in the First World will not be able to survive a
thoroughgoing globalization of the labor market. So the rich democracies
face a choice between perpetuating their own democratic institutions and
traditions and dealing justly with the Third World. Doing justice to the
Third World would require exporting capital and jobs until everything is
leveled out – until an honest day’s work, in a ditch or at a computer, earns
no higher a wage in Cincinnati or Paris than in a small town in Botswana.
But then, it can plausibly be argued, there will be no money to support free
public libraries, competing newspapers and networks, widely available
liberal arts education, and all the other institutions that are necessary to
produce enlightened public opinion, and thus to keep governments more
or less democratic."
- Richard Rorty, Justice as a larger loyalty
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