- According to Appiah, yes, everybody matters. Just because we may not agree on beliefs or values, does not mean someone does not matter, whether we think they're right or wrong.
- I think by default if everybody matters that would include people in corporate America's supply chains. Appiah includes everyone in 'citizens of the world' which is who his model aims to talk about, which includes corporate Americans.
Appaih starts his book by providing the reader with the roots of cosmopolitanism. By telling where cosmopolitanism was born (with the Cynics of the fourth century BC), who it's been spending time with over the years (the Stoics, Immanuel Kant, Christoph Martin Wieland to name a few), and where it's future is headed (how we use cosmopolitanism as 'citizens of the world'), Appiah personifies the 'thin' word cosmopolitanism in to a 'thick' person from the start.
The basic idea of 'live and let live' is what Appiah stresses as the foundation of cosmopolitanism (in many more words.) We may not believe the same as another, but the human desire to agree allows us to accept the 'what' of another being's beliefs, even if we do no agree on the 'why.' In a nutshell, if you believe in Christ and I believe in Allah, we can talk about works of art, and not want to murder each other for our fundamental beliefs. Thus, understanding other citizens of the world and even other citizens within our own societies, is a fundamental value of cosmopolitanism.
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