The World is Flat: This is not a Test summary

Friedman states that getting Americans to rally around compassionate flatism is much more difficult than getting them to rally around anticommunism. America is going to have to sort out what to keep, what to discard, what to adapt, what to adopt, where to redouble our efforts, and where to intensify our focus. The flattening of the world is going to be disruptive to both traditional and developed societies. The weak will fall further behind faster, the traditional will feel the force of modernization more profoundly, the new will get turned into old quicker, and the developed will be challenged by the underdeveloped more profoundly. The rest of the chapter explains five action areas built around compassionate flatism:
-leadership: the job of every politician in America should be to help educate and explain to people what world they are living in and what they need to do if the want to thrive within it. But the problem is that most politicians don't have a clue about the flat world.
-muscles: how government and business can enhance every worker's lifetime employability, which requires replacing fat (lifetime employment) with muscle (lifetime employability).
-good fat: e.g. social security, wage insurance (which should be added).
-social activism: the relationship between global corporations and their own moral consciousness needs to be sorted out.
-parenting: helping individuals adapt to a flat world is also the job of parents. They need to know about the world in which their child is growing up in.