Globalization stops innovation is a straw man. The problem with globalization is that it destabilizes individuals and communities. There may be overall national benefits, but harms a concentrated, as David Autor and others have clearly demonstrated.
If you want to make a real case for globalization, explain what to do for those that globalization impacts badly and in many cases irreprably.
He's made it clear he doesn't care about the negative impacts on the flyover chuds -- he just wants a class of servants like they have in the UAE that will enable him to finally live the aristocratic lifestyle that intellectuals like him deserve. Which, you know, _based_ I guess.
So you are pro globalization? I am not even going to spend a second to watch your videos if you are. Globalization is an evil attack on local sovereignty, democracy, and the uniqueness of local cultures.
Globalization is a problem when it is corporatist privileges, immunities, and subsidies that are being globalized. For example, most of us don't have licenses to create fractional reserve money substitutes out of thin air or to monopolize innovations via patent restrictions, FDA licenses, etc., and most of us can't get our tech start-up funding from the CIA.
Historically, protectionism was used to insulate domestic heavy industries and agriculture from foreign competition, so breaking down trade barriers does confer a substantial benefit to consumers in those areas. However, the contemporary variety of special interest troll is more interested in suppressing competition via intellectual restrictions, regulations, targeted legal immunities, and grants of monetary seignorage, and in leveraging their influence over politicians, bureaucrats, and mass media and their control over the financial system to shape the behavior of consumers and other corporations towards their interests.
To the extent that "globalization" means forcing more countries to use U.S. Treasuries as a monetary reserve, to join the World Intellectual Property Organization, to open up their financial systems to domination by Wall Street, to let unaccountable social media giants control their data, etc., it means one is empowering Western corporatist rent-seekers and their Deep State allies at the expense of these countries.
Globalization stops innovation is a straw man. The problem with globalization is that it destabilizes individuals and communities. There may be overall national benefits, but harms a concentrated, as David Autor and others have clearly demonstrated.
If you want to make a real case for globalization, explain what to do for those that globalization impacts badly and in many cases irreprably.
He's made it clear he doesn't care about the negative impacts on the flyover chuds -- he just wants a class of servants like they have in the UAE that will enable him to finally live the aristocratic lifestyle that intellectuals like him deserve. Which, you know, _based_ I guess.
See for example https://open.substack.com/pub/agglomerations/p/manufacturing-jobs-boom-not-reaching?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=wcji
So you are pro globalization? I am not even going to spend a second to watch your videos if you are. Globalization is an evil attack on local sovereignty, democracy, and the uniqueness of local cultures.
Globalization is a problem when it is corporatist privileges, immunities, and subsidies that are being globalized. For example, most of us don't have licenses to create fractional reserve money substitutes out of thin air or to monopolize innovations via patent restrictions, FDA licenses, etc., and most of us can't get our tech start-up funding from the CIA.
Historically, protectionism was used to insulate domestic heavy industries and agriculture from foreign competition, so breaking down trade barriers does confer a substantial benefit to consumers in those areas. However, the contemporary variety of special interest troll is more interested in suppressing competition via intellectual restrictions, regulations, targeted legal immunities, and grants of monetary seignorage, and in leveraging their influence over politicians, bureaucrats, and mass media and their control over the financial system to shape the behavior of consumers and other corporations towards their interests.
To the extent that "globalization" means forcing more countries to use U.S. Treasuries as a monetary reserve, to join the World Intellectual Property Organization, to open up their financial systems to domination by Wall Street, to let unaccountable social media giants control their data, etc., it means one is empowering Western corporatist rent-seekers and their Deep State allies at the expense of these countries.
I learned a lot from Part I. Now back to work. I'll view Part II this weekend.
Cool. I don't think I've ever seen Robin Hanson in a video before.