Satirical Essay: The Problems Of Globalization

In the first comic, it depicts a family whom has recently went on a trip around the world, each commenting on the items they bought during their travels, which are all buyable in North America and how they’re so proud of buying ‘foreign’ objects overseas, despite the fact that I noted early about the products all being commonplace in North America. The title which says ‘The Problems of Globalization’ also helps illustrate this. This satirical piece reveals how, due to North America’s influence over media, products, and the amount of stores that are overseas originating from North America, how a majority of merchandise that may seem ‘special’ due to being bought overseas are far from that. The comic also spreads light on just how many companies …show more content…
In comics one and two, we see how the outsourcing of labor makes products more accessible in the country that the labor is being outsourced to and how due to this, many of the tourist made products are most likely and item that one could find in their home country. In the comics one and three, we see how globalization and the denial or removal of public services for the good of a company and its next cash cow will also spread throughout the world due to globalization and that soon that company might be able to be seen more frequently when going on trips meant to get you away from such common sights at home. In the comics two and three, they overview how due to the outsourcing of labor and the exploitation of large multinationals unto the public are able to not only make citizens of a first world country not have jobs, but also be very susceptible to being poor and possibly neglected, due to not having both public services AND a job that isn’t taken or being outsourced as indentured labor. The one thing I have noticed that ties all the comics together is that all of them have to do with a large corporation taking advantage of globalization, the ability to outsource labor and the ability to make public services obsolete, to add more money in the bank for their company while taking advantage of consumers along the