True, But You Confused Symptom With Cause
Capitalism, as manifested by globalization, is an unstoppable force. Short of an apocalyptic event, money and globalization will, like water, find a way to continue flowing around any obstacles or pessimism you are concerned about. Costs and margins will win out. It is, after all, capitalism.
Other globalized issues referenced — wages and inequality, climate change, transnational crime and corruption, migration crises — are. however, primarily political, and only secondarily economic. In other words, the real problem, and the one you breeze past, is how dysfunctional and unresponsive political systems have become for the general population (not the elites and wealthy, of course).
It is important acknowledge the newest political systems we have are, effectively, medieval designs, promoting so-called representative systems (even international institutions live in the shadow of these national systems). But, of courses, today, given the economic problems you cite and the Internet, no one short of ideologues and the naïve thinks these systems are representative anymore. Worse, they have heard political rhetoric and promises for so long that they are discounted before tongues stop wagging the lips cease to move.
What we have today is an institutional crisis of epic proportions. It is Luther, Gutenberg and Galileo all happening simultaneously, times a thousand and occurring, not in decades or centuries as you would have us take comfort in, in timeframes ranging from hours to weeks.
Thus, your concern with a globalization backlash is a symptom not the cause of concern. Arrested political evolution is the cause — and it is not going away.
These are topics I spend much of my time on and, if you like, you can find my thoughts on my Medium publication, A Passion to Evolve. There is a short article you might try called, Doc Says — Our Emotions, Institutions and Technological Capabilities Are Mismatched or a longer, more detailed discussion called, Macroscopic Evolutionary Paradigm.
Doc Huston
