Talk:The Culture of the New Capitalism

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This is a thoughtful and ponderous book on the way the ‘new’ economy is travelling. Reading it, you get the feeling we will all soon be eclipsed by globalisation, that machines and money will take over. The book gives alarming statistics on how many jobs have been shed by new sophisticated technologies.

Money and its pursuit is like a force of nature, red in both tooth and claw as the saying goes, whereas politics tries to civilise money. In this book of lectures, we see how money is more and more encroaching on politics. Soon politics (if it hasn’t already happened) will be run by money. The scales are being further and further tipped. Soon politics will provide next to no protections for its citizens.

People in the West, you also get the impression will soon be eclipsed by the new economy. The combined populations of the two rising economies – China and India – come to about two and a half billion people. Call centre workers in India, we are told, have far superior educations to their Western counterparts. How can we compete against such well educated people, all willing to work for less than us? Globalisation will only hasten this competition for work in Western countries.

''The above is the original article, which had been tagged several times. It seems more appropriate here on the talk page. The new article was written by User:125.245.217.130 and had originally been posted on the Richard Sennett page.'' &lt;KF&gt; 09:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

POV: "Sennett eloquently describes..."
I read chapter 2 ("Spectre of Uselessness") today, and while it was readable, its language is nothing I'd want to read aloud, quote, or repeat, which is a good test for eloquence. The term seems like sympathetic POV, so I'm zapping it, but here's a thread if anybody wants to to argue for Sennett as a stylist. --AC (talk) 06:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)