We then use the income from the sales of what we’re good at to pay for the items and services we aren’t good at. It isn’t perfect, but it has promoted the greatest technological advancement in human history, brought most of us into the Digital Age, and created ever-greater demand for ever-greater levels of education. But none of this is a natural outcome of the “normal” world; rather, it is instead an artificial outcome of the American-created security and trade Order. Without global peace, the world gets smaller. Or, put more accurately, the one big world breaks up into several smaller worlds
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