Flashmag! Issue 124 December 2021 - Flashmag! Numéro 124 | Page 15

While new technologies reach the level where through neuro marketing , they can manipulate consciences and therefore the outcome of the polls , is democracy still democracy in the proper sense of the term , when people do not express more freely their choice ? The precariousness that globalization facilitates , in its selective vision of profit which targets countries where the purchasing power of populations is substantial , exclude from humanity billions of people living in third world countries , where the power to purchase is very small and therefore of little importance for the consumer economy . In these areas where precariousness creates lawlessness , the dictatorship of the strongest and . most corrupt is a fact that does not serve democracy , or the expansion of freedom . On the contrary , in a perverse way , bankrupt states , deliver at a low price through the corruption of executives and political decisionmakers , the mineral resources essential to the development of multinationals . It is therefore normal that Tesla , Apple or Microsoft allow themselves through the corruption of local wren and war dogs that are rampant in the tropics , the rare earths , or coltan , which allow the manufacture of phones , computers and other batteries for electric cars . Moreover , in the north as in the south , democracy is experiencing its darkest hours , with globalization .
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