The GP is saying globalization homogenized things. But we've always lived and traded on a globe. You're saying the Internet did, but I don't remember the "wild

The GP is saying globalization homogenized things. But we've always lived and traded on a globe. You're saying the Internet did, but I don't remember the "wild west" days of the Internet as anything like that. I think you're both dancing around "profit motive" being the only ostensible reason both of those led to same same everywhere. No "general well-being," no "public benefit," nothing that seeks to understand and preserve anything except maximal profit. And large corporate profit-seeking entities are global, beholden to no government anywhere, really, to no people beyond their shareholders. So here we are.