Actually I listened to an interesting talk yesterday by Peter Zeihan, just discovered he has some interesting ideas. One of his theories is that the reason we have globalization isn't economic but it was rather America's attempt to win and keep allies during the cold war. You could participate in a global world trade network and economy (kept safe and maintained by American military might) as long as you were willing to work within the US framework. After the end of the Cold War the original purpose for globalization has disappeared and now we have to figure out what is next.

It was an interesting argument that globalization was an American security development not an international economic development.

combine that with fossil fuels making transportation too cheap for their real environmental costs; agree

Transoceanic shipping is too cheap by far, and the deferred cost will be exponentially greater when the final bill comes due.

Globalization made every good much, much cheaper. Yes, it made some people rich, and some people lost their job, but everyone benefited from either the cheap goods or better job opportunities.

>I’m okay with living in a world with fewer millionaires but also fewer people sleeping on the streets.

Did you mean billionaires? Because a million isn't what it used to be...