Chart of the day: Filling in the gaps on emerging economies = economic dynamic of century
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 11:50AM 
It is THE amazing achievement of US grand strategy that we've created the conditions by which the chart of the direct left unfolds. If ANYBODY tells you that globalization is bad or unfair or says similar things about US "empire" since WWII, then simply show them the slide on the left, because it knocks those lies right out of the ballpark.
Or to be more succinct: the US-created and -enabled globalization process never replicated the dynamics of colonialism - i.e., kept the poor down. It did the exact opposite. The rest is just whiny bullshit propagated by little minds who refuse to accept it. We built a world order that enabled the rise of a global middle class, which means near-universal democracy is in the works (there will remain bedroom communities for the nonviolent rejectionists - we'll just ask them to put orange reflector signs on their buggies).
Further down, you see the legacy gaps in capabilities that will be invariably filled in over the coming 2-3 decades. That's when the resource constraints push the world into resource utilization of an entirely different caliber, but that too will be a good thing.
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Reader Comments (2)
Are you using the charts to make an argument againt those who say globalization is bad because it’s bad for poor people in developing nations? If so, I believe it's a great argument against them, but I can’t think of anyone who holds these views who's ideas or work on the matter has even a remote real-world impact. I think it’s a marginal perspective on globalization and so making a case against it returns low value. Far more prevelant and influencial (in terms of developed nations’ electoral politics) might be the view that globalization is bad because its bad for ‘us’, as in, 'Where are our jobs?' People holding that view look at that those charts and say, “my point, exactly!” Why don't you have a new car? Becasue someone in Shenzhen just bought it. How to argue against that; against relative decline as a problem, against a zero-sum world-view? I think it's much more of a challenge, because from a positon of short-term self-interest, their complaint might be valid.
kept the poor down. It did the exact opposite
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