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Ridiculous. This has the energy of "No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded!" Global trade is at record highs. Perhaps globalization will decline from here
by ryanwaggoner 4y ago
Ridiculous. This has the energy of "No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded!"
Global trade is at record highs. Perhaps globalization will decline from here, even permanently (although I'm very skeptical) and I'm certain it'll continue to change like it always has, but declaring it "dead" makes exactly zero sense.
- brookst 4y agoAbsolutely this. That TSMC fab in Arizona? The lithography machines come from ASML, a company in the Netherlands. The EDA tools? Those are from Siemens, a German company. And on and on. And that's on top of our new remote-first world for information workers. You used to offshore departments or teams; now teams are as likely to be made up of people living in different countries as they are to be made up of people living in the same metro area. Some aspects of globalization are changing. That's normal. But declaring it dead is like declaring the Internet dead because it just got absorbed into all of the products we use.