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by yAnonymous 3627 days ago
Exactly. The average citizen doesn't see much of the benefits of globalization. It mostly helps governments and companies.
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Tell that to my cheap phone made in China running an OS made by developers from around the world. My Turkish t-shirt, the Spanish tomatoes I ate this morning or the server I'm remotely setting up on the other side of the planet, so my company can sell their services there.
You benefit as a consumer, but you may lose as a worker.

We end up in this strange environment where manufactured goods are very cheap compared to housing and professional non-importable services like health and education.

Are you in the lower/working class of your country? If not, then you're not necessarily amongst those that the system works against.
The mere existence of globalization is not a counter-argument to the grandparent. To construct a counter-argument, you need to proof that the Turkish t-shirt and Spanish tomatoes are actually a benefit to you (or rather, to the mythical "average person").