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...literary license intended to draw attention to the issue—but this mea culpa does not arrive until page 375. The concession’s offhand placement in the denouement of the argument, rather than in the prelude to it, can only confuse the reader compelled by Friedman??s effervescent faith in flatness for the previous...
...order to determine whether globalization has flattened the world, of course, one must begin with a coherent conception of globalization itself. Friedman??s leans excessively on economics at the expense of sociopolitical and moral concerns, as his exchange in the book with Sandel illustrates...
...Friedman??s rejoinder is that, from an American perspective, one can legitimately perceive outsourcing as exploitation of cheap foreign labor but that the flat world may require trading one person’s unemployment for another’s economic liberation. But, confined so closely to his economic mode of analysis, Friedman has replied to a vastly different trade-off than the one Sandel posited. The critical issue is not merely to whom economic benefit is allocated at whose expense, but also to what extent it should be pursued at all in the face of competing claims...
...moves on to discuss briefly the depersonalization that a frictionless, expansive, highly technical–i.e., “flat”–world may impose. He risks triviality, however, by steeping the discussion in Americana, evoking Willy Loman and citing a real-life struggling Minnesota wholesaler. Friedman??s pal the wholesaler may have a legitimate complaint that he can no longer “stop by the office, give the buyers a few Vikings’ tickets,” and maintain a friendly rapport with his customers. But the wholesaler’s grievance...
...Here Friedman??s effort to link his analysis to American popular culture seems like a stretch; later it becomes downright offensive. He writes: “Bin Laden is to the Arab masses what O.J. was to many American blacks—the stick they poke in the eye of an ‘unfair’ America and their leaders...