I was speaking in relation to the globalist financial mechanisms specifically the World Bank, but in the areas of trade, the WTO and many Free Trade agreements will suffice. The world is becoming more interdependent at the expense of national sovereignty.
One of the tidbits left out of this article is the fact that the American consumer is buying less chocolate than in the past (I should re-phrase, the growth is lower than in the past).
Chocolate is picking up in popularity around the world and Hershey knows it must move production to the local market.
Hershey still has multiple plants inside the United States to service our demand. It just doesn’t need as many as it previously did.
As far as interdependence... businesses are usually interdependent on other businesses and entities (suppliers, shippers, bankers, government agencies, etc) and so have always been working and counting on their relationships with other entities.
It has been like that since man got away from the agrarian, do it at home/on the farm/in the cave society. All human growth was spurred by trade and the interdependencies that they count on. Before there was official money man worked out rules of trade and rates of exchange with their local neighbors and “foreign” merchants.
The Roman garrison towns brought along traders and merchants who developed local suppliers and distribution chains beyond the garrisons themselves to the very subjugated peoples and enemies the garrisons were there to protect/guard against.
Rome was about business and trade They destroyed the Carthaginians mostly over control of the shipping lanes to and from the markets they relied on for imports and exports across several continents and a subcontinent or two. Rome’s success was in making the known world safe for global trade and creating a cross border road network.
Commerce and it’s interdependencies have driven the development of modern society. And yes their were lenders and bankers then too. Then the world had the Knights Templar, the Dutch insurance companies, and of course the Swiss bankers. Columbus’s trip was NOT a altruistic adventure to expand Spain’s knowledge of the world, the Mayflower trip was not totally a flight for religious freedom, and Marco Polo did not go to China just for the scenery either.
Money has ALWAYS crossed international boundaries in search of profit. Governments have always worked to protect trade routes (through agreements or armies), lenders have always lent money to businesses and governments outside the borders of their own countries/areas.
A factory worker who lost his job did not lose it in a vacuum or at the whim of a big bad business guy or government who just wanted him out of work, angry or on the public dole. Since history began those entities and organisms who can not adapt and do it better every day eventually go extinct (become unemployable or worthless in the market).
So the idea that there is a new globalism or world order is actually ancient news. Those who cared little to learn the realities of the world since man started trading (right after the first guy traded corn to the guy who could smith metal into plows) are doomed to be disappointed.
You seen disappointed with the OLD realities of the world even though though they are repackaged as new conspiracy theories and are not new at all.