An excellent piece on the fatuities that get passed around on globalisation.

First, that the condition of mankind for hundreds of thousands of years has been poverty, starvation, an early death, and pestilence. Three hundred years ago, capitalism was invented. Since then, the people who have most closely adopted capitalism have escaped those ill effects, those who have adopted it in partial measure escaped some, and those not at all, not at all.

Read the rest.