I strongly agree that speaker`s assertion that cooperating well with others is more important than ever before in contemporary world. Of course, in the society that intends to unchange social structure such as agriculture countries, a variety of tribes in Amazon and so on, it is no longer necessary for them to cooperate well with others than before. As considering worldwide tendency, however, we could recognize that cooperating become more momentous than ever before, especially in context of a labor movement and solving worldwide problem.
First, recently, cooperating with others is more significant to labor-class to sustain their dignity as human and materialistic conditions. After Thatcherism in 1970s, neo-liberalism has been to be a global trend. Since neo-liberalism accepted a lot of country, labor market have tended to divide hierarchically - regular worker, non regular worker. According to Guardian in English magazine, dividing labor policy in enterprise have led to collapse of solidarity of labor union, resultantly, almost workers are threatened by free-discharge and diminish of insurance such as health insurance. In current situation, the way of resistance to the destructive policy for the labor-class would be only way to strengthen solidarity beyond hierarchical position in labor market because labor-class didn`t have any power and property individually. it indicates that cooperating with others is to be more significant in a society where become to provide a disadvantaged working conditions for labor-class.
Furthermore, cooperating would be a critical activity than ever before in another sense. With respect to solving global problem, the importance of cooperating is growing in our own century. Actually, many countries have been in partnership to solve the any worldwide problem. For instance, many countries accept the agreement that the governments under obligation to decrease CO2 emission and to block a spread of nuclear weapon production for human society. The problem is possible global problem would increase by so called 'globalization' which encourage the network of earth to narrow. We already experience that economy crisis departed U.S have effected worldwide economy instability. Thus, if we cannot accept the way to solve global problem by violent way such as war, the importance of cooperating with companion would grow than ever before.
To sum, I agree the speaker`s suggestion that cooperating well with others will be more important in the future, especially, in context of changes of labor conditions and global problem. Only by ignoring the context of sustain labor movement and solving global problem could one conclude that importance of cooperating will not grow. |