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So turning our backs on globalisation was a mistake after all. Everyone needs everyone to work well together. So much winning.

My PC was due for an upgrade this year (still using a video card from 2019)… so I really hope this keeps working for another … 5 ?! years

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My graphics card is from 2016; you'll be fine.

Globalization is not going anywhere. Without it you’re basically going to be Cuba 2.0

We're getting some moderately expensive and painful lessons about how hard it would be to deglobalize.

Umm, I think you have it reversed. A helium plant in Qatar shutting down causing problems to US chip consumers is precisely because of globalization.

So what, you expect 195 countries to develop a copy of everything just so they can hate the other 194?

Connection and collaboration is always the better way forward.

It's amazing how pretty much every reply to my original comment has failed to comprehend that I was not criticizing globalization. Whether it's even possible to get to where we are without it is also debatable.

But the question you're asking me is meaningless, because the premise is wrong. My original reply was true and entirely independent of my or anyone else's opinion of whether globalization is good/bad.

Your comment was technically true but I don't get the point of it.

Redundancy is not "hate", it's robustness against failure. Complex, interconnected supply chains are fragile. If you're building an online storage API, you would (I hope) consider it deeply irresponsible not to setup plenty of followers of the main system for redundancy and automatic fail over. The idea that supply chains should not do this, or that any such suggestions are emotionally driven decisions is extremely bizarre.

Yes, this may increase costs slightly because robustness necessarily has a cost associated with it.

It's hard to imagine chip supply chain could be commercially viable without globalization.

One could probably argue that giving up globalization means fewer and less capable products.

Good, we agree :)

You can have a 1960s isolated all in country production line if you're happy with the products of the 1960s.

It's a little weird that you seem to think that humans can't make technological progress without globalization.

Pretty sure the helium plant is in Qatar because the helium is in Qatar, not because of globalization.

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