Are there statistics showing that globalization lifts all boats?
Pink: It depends on whose standard of living. Certainly U.S. per capita GDP over the last 50 years has tripled. I am certain living standards in much of the rest of the world have also improved. That said, you’ve still got more than a billion people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day. So it’s not like everybody is living in a land of milk and honey by any long shot, but in general globalization has made things better rather than worse, and in general the present is better than the past. In general, I am almost certain, not because I am a woolly-eyed optimist but because I’m a realist, that the future will be better than the present. Q: In your book A Whole New Mind, you predict that more routine white-collar jobs will flow out of developed nations and into developing ones, and you say that they will be made up for by more creative jobs in America and other developed nations. Yet, this assumes that most people are capable of being highly creative. Suppose most of us are n
