Common meaning:

Networks that span the world for the purpose of producing and supplying goods at the lowest possible cost.

Hidden meaning of the Equity religion: 

A tool capitalists use to exploit third world workers. 

Discussion:

Equity teaches that the global supply chain is just a tool that is used by capitalists in the West to make themselves rich by exploiting workers in the third world. 

Equity claims to care about workers in the third world, but in reality, the sole purpose of the entire religion is to create more converts, not to help anybody. You can tell this is true because those who are believers in the religion never ever talk about potential solutions for anything. The only thing they ever do is repeat how terrible things are all the time and how things have to be destroyed.

Regarding exploitation, the real question is if companies are using tactics that force the workers to do work by requiring them to rent the tools or threatening them with prison. If companies are not using these types of tactics and the reason people are taking the jobs is that working at other jobs is worse, then we don’t have a situation of exploitation, but opportunity.

The global supply chain is a good thing, not evil.