# The Next World Trade Order

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2022-11-04

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There are a series of [articles and charts in the WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/story/the-messy-unwinding-of-the-new-world-order-b43d7e45) showing how the “world order of global trade” rose tremendously after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but in recent years, has begun to fragment.

Looking, as I do, at everything through rose-colored crypto glasses, I see an opportunity (perhaps a catalyst here) for the future adoption of crypto.

While countries themselves have been struggling and de-globalizing, I wonder if the citizens are really ready to do the same.

After all, we’ve had a taste of global commerce, of improved standards of living through trade, and lower costs.

This is where decentralized public networks can do an “end run” around the existing trade order to create a new one.

I just finished watching the new German-language version of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

It’s the horror of 1918 presented with 2022 tech and special effects. Powerful.

But, in that movie, you really get a sense of how the world had changed because of that “Great War.”

Hopefully, far, far, far fewer people die in this realignment of the world’s system since 2008/2020 and hopefully, the next wave of economic growth comes from direct connections between people, not relying on governments to all get along.

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*Originally published on [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/the-next-world-trade-order)*