Liên hiệp cũng đã buộc các công ty để cạnh tranh dựa trên sự đổi mới, năng suất và dịch vụ, chứ không phải là cắt giảm chi phí lao động. Độc lập, nó là chủ yếu là các quốc gia nghèo thông qua pháp luật phải làm việc. Các quốc gia này không thể để tài trợ cho các khía cạnh quan trọng của cơ sở hạ tầng của họ, từ giáo dục để vận chuyển chăm sóc y tế. | Myths of the Free Market This sentiment may be necessary for the long-term survival of democracy even and especially in the contemporary world. In its absence a democracy can too easily degenerate into a plutocracy or a corporatist state. But this sentiment is hardly to be found today. In modern industrial democracies there is a failure to value even immediate community. This failure that may be symptomatic of a deeper insularity a spiritual malaise wrought ironically by the benefits of modern society. The civilized being of the immense cities returns to the wild state that is to a state of isolation because the social mechanism allows him to forget the need for community and to lose his feelings of connection to other people which were once kept alive by his wants. Every improvement in the social mechanism renders useless certain acts certain ways of feeling certain attitudes toward communal life. Max Stirner quoted in Roberto Calasso The Ruin of Kasch p. 263. When our ties to family friends and community had survival value they were stronger. They also had spiritual value. Now that their survival value has disappeared the ties themselves have weakened. While we have mastered techniques of socialization these are superficial. We have become spiritually solitary beings. This isolation has impoverished us even if our poverty is not reflected in monetary measures. While these issues have been addressed by religion they are too often addressed within a narrow context. Religious communities are comprised solely of co-religionists and encourage the view that those outside the community are less deserving. This creates competing sub-communities and weakens the whole. The resulting factionalism can destroy democracies. That is why diversity in religion or in other areas presents such a challenge to democracy. It is why Rousseau advocated a single unifying civil religion to which all citizens must belong. How can we teach the value of heterogeneous community How can we .
