LZ Granderson: What we have witnessed in the last 25 or 30 years is simply the first installment of what we are going to see in the next 25 or30 years. He says China can further suck out all the jobs that used to define middle-class America. LZ: That's, I think, a very pessimistic but not unrealistic possibility that we will have really Western societies being splintered in that way.
Yascha Mounk and Branko Milanovic discuss what his famous elephant curve says about the ills—and the gains—of globalization; how the left’s concern with inequality is being turned against its concern with internationalism; why economic causes of populism are often expressed in cultural ways; and how a determination to increase the financial and educational endowments of ordinary citizens can combat inequality and boost their living standards.
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