This is a great video illustrating the realities of globalisation. Some of the statistics are a bit meaningless as they aren’t provided in any context, but the general ideas are sound.

It shows a lot of things that I’ve come to realise and discover about the world since the late 90’s. Most of my time in school I was being indoctrinated with the idea that I had to study and learn skills in order to get a job. Fashion myself into a cog that could fit into some machine. Problem is, that kind of thinking came out of the industrial age. India and China are pusing out around 4 million graduates a year. Anything that doesn’t need face to face contact will be outsourced. I have a friend who takes on programming contracts, but doesn’t actually do the work. Someone in India does it for him. There’s no such thing as a job for life anymore, soon a lot more people won’t have jobs at all. That doesn’t mean they won’t be productive or earn money. They’ll just go about it in different ways than previous generations.I had so many of these realisations around the age of 16 but I always trusted adults knew what they were doing and that I didn’t have the full picture. But about 2 years ago it finally hit home: most people don’t know what the hell they are doing. They just blindly follow what society-programming tells them to think and do. As I grow in confidence I learn to trust my instincts much more. I believe it’s life’s way of letting me know that I need to evolve.