Globalization and Spatial Inequality
Globalization is greatly affecting the squattered settlements because most of the population in a country, will be substantially in the cities. This causes a great inequality amongst the rural and urban areas.
Capitalism has created a leeway to new technologies. The new technology replaces unskilled workers. Jobs that could be done by men are now done by “machines” or “robots”. Especially in Rio’s favelas, it has increased inequality.
Rio’s workers become noncompetitive; when international trade opens up, capital benefits when labor and production costs are cheap.
Brazil outsources jobs by sending products to be made overseas; this decreases job availability for the poor. Favela workers are usually uneducated and they lack the skill to migrate to a different country and work, to then send money back to its country like the middle class people have been able to do.
Western culture, which is visible through the internet and TV has cities hungry to make profit. Therefore, they allow factories and toxic dumping from these oversea companies. This affects the health of the poor and has also exploited the people from its cheap labor and unrestrictive working conditions in Rio.
Western culture, which is visible through the internet and TV has cities hungry to make profit. Therefore, they allow factories and toxic dumping from these oversea companies. This affects the health of the poor and has also exploited the people from its cheap labor and unrestrictive working conditions in Rio.
Globalization is depicted as a process that cannot be controlled; actually it can be, by fixing policies that make the market the most important issue, when there should be a concentration on communities and citizens.
This can “mitigate or reverse the trend toward greater inequality”(Perlman 2009).
This can “mitigate or reverse the trend toward greater inequality”(Perlman 2009).
The huge inequality between the rich and poor in Brazil is immense, it has deprived one third of its population political participation. Inequality is a huge reason why social mobility is nearly impossible, usually in favelas the people try to become better educated and try to make something of themselves.
It also affects socio inequality because it “creates economic dependency on other countries” which makes them “slaves to the global economy”. (Perlman 2009).
It also affects socio inequality because it “creates economic dependency on other countries” which makes them “slaves to the global economy”. (Perlman 2009).
Although there are also positive effects of Globalization, like the internet, which eases communications and access to information around the globe, It does not solve the issue on inequality that Rio suffers, instead it creates new needs and wants amongst the poor, like extra cell phones, and expensive materialistic things that the United States splurges on. They may feel deprived, which takes their mind off more important things in life. The consumer culture has also caused a great disparity amongst the people in Brazil.
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