How the Internet helped close 63,000 factories in the U.S. since 2001

They call it globalization and the Internet is the primary cause of Globalization. Before the Internet you couldn't easily buy things from other countries unless they were shipped here and imported here first.

So, when you could go online and buy say some olives from Greece, or pizzas from Italy, or rice from China or whatever from wherever American Companies began to suffer and die. You might say, "Well. This was a good thing because we now pay less for everything because of the Internet."

Yes. This is true. But, it is also the reason why 63,000 factories have closed in the U.S. since 2001 and why middle aged Americans are starting to commit suicide in numbers that resemble kids under 21 now too. Because they no longer have those middle Class factory jobs at all levels, they no longer have a paycheck that is $30,000 to $100,000 a year and they can no longer find jobs if they are over 50 years old except maybe delivery pizzas with their car or in a gas station somewhere which used to be jobs that kids in High school had only when I grew up.

No one wanted this to happen when the Internet was invented first by Darpa through the U.S. government as a way to create redundant computers which all contained the same information in case one of our cities was bombed by a nuclear weapon from Russia or China or somewhere else. The Internet came from this redundant technology of having 100 or more computers with all the information the country needed to survive chain of command etc. no matter how many cities were destroyed so we could both survive and mount a counter nuclear attack to anywhere on earth and completely destroy every man, woman and child there in response to any nuclear attack.

Because of MAD (MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION) and Darpa we now have the Internet which closed 63,000 factories in the U.S. and is now causing many middle aged people to kill themselves because their quality of life is not high enough to want to still be alive anymore.

I think it useful to understand how this happened. Also, trade agreements with other countries helped create this problem too.

But, here we get into International politics and the survival of nations which is different than the problem of a literally dying middle class in the U.S. because of Globalization.