Although globalization of the economy has been characterized as a locomotive for productivity, opportunity,
technological progress, and uniting the world, it ultimately causes increased impoverishment, social disparities and violations of human rights.
; or maybe in a sense we do, but they could be of either the political / social or
technological sort; the more the better, but just political / social could work okay (
although that would work partly by boosting R&D to continue
technological progress, but I'm not sure if that's necessarily breakthroughs (it wouldn't surprise me if someone got a zinc phosphide, CZTS, or pyrite solar cell to work economically at some point in the future, or used light - trapping to make c - Si cheaper and more efficient, or... — it would surprise me if it happenned tomorrow, but...).