Responsible development seeks to moderate the power of wealth, distribute incomes more evenly, and create wealthier consumers to support expanding production and sustained growth. Both of these development routes, however, are narrowly economic. Expanded trade, efficient production, and commodification of more aspects of daily life are the shared components of economic progress. Getting satisfactions and contentment from non-work connected activities are popular Mexican targets. It will organize people to work more efficiently for long hours under rigid rules.
Economic integration tends to arrive as an external and imposed force.
Ways of getting satisfaction that don't have a price will be devalued, forms that can be made to have a price or that are created because they have price will be valued and then rationed based on ability to pay. If the aspiration for a democratic society is to be realized in secure and rewarding livelihoods, it cannot be anchored in the struggle over managing and dividing the economic development pie. A democratic response to trade issues need not be confined by such economic indicators as incomes, growth, unemployment, and sustained profitability. These indicators provide an obviously important but ultimately one-sided picture. The myth of economic progress has a dark underside connected to the process of valuing economic aspects of society goods and activities that can be rationally organized on a large-scale and given a price while devaluing others.