" At the end of the day, we supported globalization because we wanted to be able to buy cheaper computers, cheaper vehicles, cheaper clothes and cheaper furniture. Wal-Mart parking lots were jammed with North American workers buying bargain-basement-priced goods made in China even if in the process they were shopping themselves right out of their own jobs. "

― Jeff Rubin , Why Your World Is about to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization