September 24, 2024

Globalization creates diversity and interdependent relationships. That's what "made America great" at one time. Fifty different states created a high degree of diversity and interdependent relationships.

That combination generates solutions to problems. It creates a highly diverse group of specialists; so every question gets studied someplace.

It also creates interactions of realities. If obstruction and corruption occurs one place, it gets overwhelmed by rationality from many directions.

Efficiency also increases, as diversity allows adaptation to a wide variety of purposes.

The result of diversity is a production machine which has adaptability to the widest possible range of purposes. It also overwhelms corrupters who get in the way by producing practical solutions which are a lot more convincing than the whims of ignorant destroyers.

Globalizing that result was inevitable, as social interactions increased and crossed national boundaries. Putting that genie back into a bottle is beyond stupidity.

Attempting to "bring the manufacturing back" by deglobalizing is beyond stupidity. The globalized results will leave such stupidity in the dust for the same reason it somewhat made America great at one time.

The manufacturers didn't leave for no reason. They had no choice about it. They said so. They said they could not get the labor they needed. How could they? Globalization required billions of workers. They needed to be located in countries that didn't require parking lots.

It means the U.S. needs to be a part of the globalization process instead of trying to defeat it.

Of course, globalizing power through one world government is nothing resembling globalization of industry, because power mongers replace everything right and constructive with their ignorant whims.

Nothing global scale is going to be brought back down to parochial interests; nothing as complex as modern technology is going to be reduced back down to putting screws in metal; and nothing that complex is going to be produced by a small handful of workers who are often not taught how to read or produce math.

There is a small amount of background talk about teaching to read again through phonics, which means the expectation was a few privileged characters in togas instead of the four billion workers would produce products.

One of the most obvious consequences is the stupidity of tariffs to reduce imports. After the tariffs, people will still need to buy the same products while adding the equivalent of a federal sales tax, which is what tariffs are. Of course, a few weird exceptions were always needed; but they were too small to influence the general economy.

In other words, the talk of tariffs says only something about nonfunctional brains who can't understand the scale and shape of globalization.