Just like that! Oh, Thought Bubble, I love you so much! Okay, so this all brings us to how globalization has changed us, and whether it's for the better. If you're looking for the minimum wage here in the United States, this t-shirt, purchased at your friendly neighborhood e-tailer dftba.com, will cost you about three hours worth of work, and yes, that does include shipping. By the time it arrives at your door, the cotton within that t-shirt will have traveled by truck, train, ship, possibly even airplane if you opt for priority shipping. And it will probably have traveled further than Magellan did during his famous circumnavigation of the globe. Yet all that for three hours of work, by contrast, a far less comfortable garment several hundred years ago would have cost you ten times as much work.