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The Importance of a Global Economy
If you want the lifestyle that you're used to, and not a lifestyle from, I don't know, the 1700s, you do need a global economy. You actually have to go further than that for that isolationist argumentation to make any sense. Even at least in the 1500s, you have Spanish colonization. So this idea that there's global interest in this kind of interconnected world goes back a really long time.