Who Created Globalization

Globalization is the process where different countries interconnect, and trade goods for the purpose of making business out of what each other can produce, often these trades impact each country differently. Kenneth Pomeranz, and Steven Topik, discuss in their book “The World That Trade Created” how globalization has impacted the world since early history. Trade creates a wider gap between rich and the poor, this being a negative impact for the poor, where they continue to get even poorer. Where often people are deprived of resources and jobs available around. Some countries also lower their environmental standards to the point it becomes a serious issue. Positives of globalization are that it offers business entrepreneurs to offer their product …show more content…
Coffee was central to exchange and production, soon becoming popular “in the seventeenth century, affluent people all over the world began to drink, smoke, and eat exotic plants that came from long distances.” This exotic plants were used as an aphrodisiac, taking people into stages that would not be possible without them, that being the reason of their popularity. Nowadays coffee is not considered as a drug, before like any drugs today, coffee “… [Was] initially outlawed in consuming countries” without the high demand of coffee trading, it would still be banned today. Trading, and consumption of coffee and other “drugs” was so popular that producers attempted to keep monopolies of their product, but failed since, “they failed when Europeans used the persuasion of trade and the force of warfare to open ports.” This leading to an even greater globalization of drugs, where the profit helped the construction of colonies. The drug trade tariffs is still a profit for the governments, helping the economy today, taxes are charged to help for …show more content…
While trade is still happening the good and the bad exists as well. Trade is controlled by huge companies, where small entrepreneurs have almost no success in competition with their prices. The prices are so low because some workers are still being exploited, it might not be as severe as taking people as slaves in their own land as the Spaniards did with the Aztecs, but low wages still happen. The desire for money and power takes globalization to be harmful for most citizens, huge plantations require the deforestation of lands which takes us to face environmental problems, and with the growing of the population the damage is irreversible. In fact without trade, product would not be available to everyone as is it now, it connect people by bringing people together, taking a product native from a certain part of the world to become known, and used, bringing people together in a way. Coffee would not be popular, but now coffee is one of the most popular drinks that helps people feel energized. Transportation mainly used for transportation of trading goods, is known commercially used for transportation of people that want to travel and explore other parts of the world. Although the world is shaped by globalization, it cannot be called a positive impact, the differences between who has the power and the poor working people is immense, ethically we cannot