The Realization of the Lost Tools of Autonomy

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This paper provides a view of the so-called "Third World" as an indicator of the state of the planet and examines how one must look at the marginal peoples not as an undeveloped society, but one that lives in harmony with the planet. Through a literature review, it shows the various tools for autonomy that have been snatched away due to forces that do not have an understanding of the communities that they affect.

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"With the plethora of free trade deals that have been devised, people have not realized the damage that these bureaucratic organizations are doing to subsistence peoples and their environment and social fabric. One such example is the corn farming communities of Mindanao. These people were self-sufficient and happy with their lifestyle until transnational corporations, aided by the advent of the WTO and GATT, were able to disrupt their lives. Because they had more buying power, the TNCs could sell their product at a much lower rate, the people couldn't compete and they had to abandon their lifestyle, either ending up in poverty or working for these big businesses, all of this being "celebrated as a further victory of 'comparative advantages' and of free trade" "

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