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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
We already have globalization to a very large extent. However, is it a good thing? The current atmosphere in the US is one of isolationism. At least that is how I perceive it. Zuckerman states some pulled back from lack of being connected and also fake news. Of course this stemming from getting pinned with allowing fake news to permeate FB.
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It's a double-edged sword, no doubt about it, on the one hand it's given us a lot of things, the internet, cheaper holidays, cheaper food...but on the other it's also helped increase the gap between the richest and poorest, and I think that's part of the push-back we're seeing in the isolationist stance that some people are taking because they feel that they've been left behind, and of course, another by-product of globalisation is that it's a lot easier now to see how the other half live, and to organise expressions of discontent.
Of course, the situation is not going to be improved by isolationism, because aircraft will still fly, the internet will still bring instantaneous communication between people, we will always want things better, faster, cheaper, this is the driving force of humanity. Only...we're heading into a time when the things that will make everything better, faster and cheaper are also going to make vast swathes of humanity unemployed, and our current economic system is just not designed to cope with this, and at the moment we have no answers, and that's kind of terrifying.