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But is this really a tradeoff we're making, or just two trends? It's pretty glib to say "well, inequality is worse, but that's the price of better technology"; inequality is worse and we have better technology. From 1880 to 1950 technology got better and inequality decreased. "Globalisation" becomes a grab-bag term for a lot of different trends and movements, and I wouldn't want to get paralyzed into saying "well, if we hired workers directly and not through contractors, we wouldn't be able to buy cheap consumer goods made in a newly industrialized China."