In the future, I'm going to get to second base with Molly Brown. No, you won't, Me From the Past. But the fact that when asked to imagine the future, you imagine your future, says a lot about the contemporary world. And listen, Me From the Past, while there's no question that your solipsistic individualism is bad both for you and for our species, the broader implications of individualism in general are a lot more complex. Intro Man, I'm going to miss you, intro. So last week, ta-da, we discussed how global economic interdependence has led, on average, to longer, healthier, more prosperous lives for humans, not to mention an astonishing change in the overall human population. In the West, globalization has also led to the rise of a service economy.