The World is Round

Well, the current best seller by Thomas Friedman goes by the title " The World is Flat". It talks about how the whole world has been flattened and driven by economic considerations. According to it, globalisation is all about procuring inputs at the cheapest location, adding value at the optimum location and selling it in the market which fetches the highest price for the good/service.

According to me, "the world is round " if you look at it in another way. Let me explain.. Consider a very poor person who doesnt have a place to call his own and he's sleeping on pavements. Typically, you would expect him to wear tattered clothes or may his poverty is bad enough to keep him exposed to the vagaries of nature.

Assume, that this person decides to work hard in life and progresses to a decent standard of living. Now, he's in a position to wear good clothes and make himself presentable. Assume that through a stroke of luck, say a lottery, this guy becomes a billionaire. Now, what does he wear !!!! Well, the surprising answer is " Nothing again " ...
Well, now, wearing nothing when you are a billionaire is fashion. Clothes made by designers are meant to expose flesh as much as possible becoz flesh sells.. So, this person, who wants to show the world that he has "ARRIVED", wears designer/fashion wear or rather to put it more aptly " does not wear anything " which is what he did when he was a beggar.
That completes the lifecycle of clothes. Looking it this way, we can say the world is ROUND. What one does when one is very poor is what he/she does when they become very rich...