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Lets talk about Grandpa and GrandmaLifestyle?Education?Expectations of life?Type of work?Standards of living?

Lets talk about Dad and Mom

Lifestyle?Education?Expectations of life?Type of work?Standards of living?What about you??Lifestyle?Education?Expectations of life?Type of work?Standards of living?How will your life be different from those preceding you?Will it be better? The same?Or evenworse?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57590632/http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/12/news/economy/american_dream_women/Pull out 3 main reasons the article cites for this issue???How did we get this way?That is, how has the world evolved to the point where this is EVEN BEING DISCUSSED?GlobalizationGlobalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange ofworld views, products, ideas, and other aspects ofculture.Advances intransportationandtelecommunicationsinfrastructure, including the rise of thetelegraph and its posterity theInternet, are major factors in globalization, generating furtherinterdependenceof economic and cultural activities.

Taken from Wikipedia

To sum it up until this point in the conversationThere has seemingly always been a desire to connect with people from distant lands.The industrial revolution accelerated this processThe technological revolution has accelerated this process even faster.Transportation costs and Communication costs have essentially shrunken the world and brought us closer together.

This decrease in trade barriers has enabled companies to moveThings are cheaper to shipLower taxes to shipProduction, therefore, has been shifted to cheaper locations.

In a nutshellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ0nFD19eT8Sourceshttp://catalogue.polytechnique.fr/site.php?id=291&fileid=5333http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/about-globalizationChomsky on globalizationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJPSLgHemM&list=PL40FA1BDFE38244A9 For your consideration about your future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvCyRoY6azkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTLyPPrZE4