In an article last year in the US journal Foreign Affairs , Alan Blinder, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton and Vice-Chair of the US Federal Reserve Board, argued that the process of globalization has the potential to cause massive job loss in the future. Given that electronic communications technology has a powerful potential to replace employees with others who are thousands of miles away, we may now be seeing only the beginning of this process.
和Sarkozy的观点类似的对自由贸易的担忧在全球争愈演愈烈。在去年的美国《外交》杂志上发表的一篇文章里，克林顿总统的前顾问兼美联储副主席Allan Blinder表示全球化进程有可能在未来造成大量的失业。鉴于电子通信技术的强大潜力能让公司以远在千里之外的人员来替代本地雇员，我们现在所看到的还仅仅是这一进程的端倪。