In some aspects he is correct--the original arguments of the supporters of the expansion of globalism in fact promised us exactly that--but in fact globalization only benefited the Top Global 1000 and the super rich and did nothing for a majority of the countries.
If one looks at the Arab Springs and the color revolts---outside of the standard demands of rule of law and good governance and pushing back on corruption was the not so subtle demands for economic development and financial security of the various civil societies.
I keep going back to a very long debate I had in Abu Ghraib with a 50 year old Iraqi supporter of AQI-- a shoe manufacturer that complained bitterly to me that the US should stop the importation into Iraq of "cheap Chinese sandals" as he with his 50s shoe manufacturing equipment and very cheap Iraqi labor could not match the actual cost of 1.50 USD in the local markets.
That is when the negative effects of globalization come home.
An American in Iraq hearing complaints from an Iraqi Sunni AQI business supporter about Chinese underpriced sandals being imported and we the US should do something about it.
But again just how many Americans ever get the chance to see those effects up close and personal in other countries?
How much of the US Top 500-1000 have billions parked in overseas accounts because they do not want to pay US taxes for their overseas business---lets say if they invested say just 25% of that into overseas verifiable business/job creation then X amount off their US taxes and the government does not get stuck with development.
It is those Top 500-1000 that have greatly profited from globalization so why cannot they reinvest into return?
If one really looks at that massive amount of migration these days it is from;
1. wars, civil unrest etc
2. economic migration--simply people looking for work and a better economic life
So does it not behoove us to stem the flow of economic migration simply by investing in their future?
In the long run it is probably cheaper that all the wars we have been in -in the last say 15 years.
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