Globalization: The Tweetstorm

Byrne Hobart
14 min readJan 3, 2020

A few weeks ago, VGR put out a call for hundred-tweet threads on a single topic. I slightly misread this as hundred-tweet threads in a single sitting, but a couple hours later it was done.

  1. Let’s talk about globalization! It has “global” right there in the name, so it’s obviously about every country. But really, globalization is about just one country. Unfortunately, we don’t know which one. Either America or China, for very different reasons.
  2. Globalization is synonymous with America in the sense that it describes how the world changed from 1946 onward…

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Byrne Hobart

I write about technology (more logos than techne) and economics. Newsletter: https://diff.substack.com/