We got here by failing to ensure that enough demographics of people enjoyed the benefits of globalization and the continued progress of technology. Which is a little depressing since about 75% of the global population has done quite well – but that last 25% are relatively concentrated geographically and they are becoming concentrated politically.
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The Story of Globalization in 1 Graph | The Atlantic
The ideological divide in the years to come will be the one May staked out this week: for openness to the world, or against it.
We aren’t “left” or “right” any more; we are either for globalization or against it | Quartz