Globalization can bring economic growth. Most of the people object globalization because they sense that economic growth mainly helps the interests of the United States at the expense of poor countries. The downsides of economic growth affect many people who frequently feel they have nowhere to turn other than violence.
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I agree with the other comments but remember how different things are now.
Back in Jefferson’s time, there were thousands of small newspapers, they were usually just a page or two and they were all independent. Today corporations own most newspapers and they force them to toe the company line when it comes to what they can print. TV and radio are worse, most are just propaganda outlets (Fox is among the worst) and are in the entertainment business not in the news business. The PBS stations are independent when it comes to local events but most get national news from PBS or NPR, they are pretty good but they are slanted to the left.
You have to be very careful who you trust, the foreign sources are best because they don’t gain much by pushing one view or another. Even there you have to be sure they aren’t just a mouthpiece for China or Russia.
The main way in which artisan guilds changed labor and social class in medieval Europe is that it gave the artisans, who were mostly members of the lower class, more power--since these guilds acted somewhat like a modern "union" and helped them negotiate better pay.
