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Lots of progressives insult the idea of eating at McDonalds because it's globalization. I understand that.
However, we use Google like crazy. Too many people are using it, and Google is becoming very powerful on the world wide web as a result.
Many people are also resorting the mainstream areas online to buy books, such as Amazon.com.
Why do we use Google and Amazon so much if we're against globalization? It's because Google is the most effective search engine right now. They also give us access to news, images, groups, and gmail (with a heck of a lot of space in the inbox). Amazon is the most well known area to search for books. Why are we doing this stuff while insulting McDonalds and other globalized restaurants?
Why do people eat at McDonalds? It's because the food is cheap and easy to get. Ditto for other fast food restaurants that are killing us with their grease.
We're so worried about American cultural domination from McDonalds, but not from our main internet areas? Why?
Both are efficient for serving needs. However, we don't want either one becoming the main forms of business in the world because we first don't want them having domination in the world's cultures, what information we get, what food we eat, etc. We also don't want them deciding to run their business in any crappy way they want to and treating customers as badly as they want to. This could happen because they would know they're the only ones around (or almost the only ones around) thanks to putting others out of business (mostly smaller businesses and search engines).
However, we all use these because it's efficient. If we want to stop the globalization, we have to come up with an answer about the convenience of using these because people will continue to use what's more convenient. Is there a way to make smaller businesses or search engines more efficient so we can have more variety? Simply protesting places like McDonalds isn't going to stop globalization. We have to do something else.
Don't believe Google or any other search engine over the net could get too powerful? Well, somebody came up with a picture of what the future could be like. Tell me what you think. I think the person who created this is full of crap on some things, but not on some of it.
www.lightover.com/epic
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