Finally, the third assumption is that the local dimension, geography, will return the place in the coming years to be central. Despite a newspaper that seems to be becoming more digital and intangible.
The conclusion? Radical. “It’s time to reset everything “read. “We have to share wealth in a broader way. We should understand that Economic good -not only relates to international or national growth, but also rather real peoplepeople who live in specific communities“.
“We have focused on ourselves”
Foroohar willingly accepts to speak through video conference from his apartment in New York. The original edition of the book has just translated into English in 2022, a few months after the war in Ukraine, when there was no trace of the conflict in Gaza and the energy crisis was not on the horizon. What has changed since then? ‘Nowadays there has been more polarization, politics has become more extreme and there is a constant commercial war: but everything comes in, I believe, in the general image of Leave globalization For how we met him that I traced in the book. We are heading for a new post-neoliberal world, which will be more regional, more locally “.”The political economy – continue – It’s a pendulum: Globalization has worked for fifty years, but it has come extreme, and when you come to that point, the pendulum starts to move in the opposite direction: and now we are exactly in that situation “.
According to Donoroohar, “We focused on growth as if it were a goal in itselfWithout asking ourselves from the consequences for the environment, people and work“, And not recommended – so – left and right. But”What has learned in the last twenty years is that the place absolutely matters. And that if people pay taxes and vote, they want to have the right to say their own: We cannot get away with the easy defect of them protectionists, racists, xenophobes“. ‘Many people “, The author still continues, “Those I call Somewhere people, It has carrots somewhere. I am thinking of the teachers of the school on the corner, the baker, of those who do not move with the frequency of Wherever people from journalists, managers of large companies, digital nomads. Here, these people believe that the decisions made by politics are made by a kind of technocratic eliteFrom people who work in the software industry, in the media industry. And question: how how do these decisions help me in my community? “
The role of Europe: more integration for not terminating crushing
In a world that changes the paradigm, the weights are re -defined in the arena of the big forces. What role thinks for Europe? ‘An important role, it is an existential moment for the trade union “Claims. “Between the two models for us, the Chinese supervisory state, where you have no privacy and the data about citizens are collected by the government, and the Californian techies, who are now very close to the president, there can be a third way, and it can be those of the old continent. “ Nowadays it is difficult to catch a glimpse, because the digital economy flies, driven by artificial intelligence and by the model of attack -nocapitalism. “Ma I think we will witness a correction through the markets Within a few years, when it is clear that the monopoly of the web giants can suddenly be broken, as has already happened in the case of Deepseek. Opportunities can be created for other actors from a competitive, brave and regulatory point of view, and also for Europe. But Brussels must choose whether they should be increasingly integrated or crushed, pressed by these two giants, who also give up their values. Will it make it? I think so, even if in an imperfect way. Also because many do not yet like the idea of investing in China, and confidence in the US is failing because of Trump. Europe can use it as long as they follow the recipe for the dragon “.
Trump? “A bully”
Donorohar was born in Indiana, a state of the American Midwest. It does not run the risk of being considered a radical chic New York. From the deep America, explains, helped her understand the reasons why a large part of the population votes for Donald Trump. But also to see the boundaries of the Tycoon. “Trump is a bully that loves victories in the short term“, Remark,”How to deport terrorists arrested in small powers such as Colombia or threaten to recover Greenland. The effect is ultimately to undermine the feeling of legality and trust in the United States and I am convinced that we will pay a price for this. Even if it doesn’t make me happy to say it, because part of my pension is invested in American actions. I don’t like to be punished for the brevia mood of this president“.
The role of the press
And the newspapers? Many believe that they have not done good service. Foroohar does not entirely agree. “I think two things “, He says. “The internet shocked the editorial market in the nineties and led many publications to limit themselves to the search for clicks with the easiest stories. Nowadays it has become increasingly difficult to make quality journalism and let people pay for it. But in the end you get the one you pay for ”. “If on the one hand, however, that’s It is true that there are good reasons that people have led to trust less than the press, on the other hand it cannot be denied that journalism plays an important role in underline the change of the current paradigm. And I think that if we, just like reporters, continue to tell what we see, and to give people the parts of the system that need to be reformed, we will do well“.
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