Look carefully at the workplace in that picture.  It’s clean, airy, uncrowded, and well-lit.  And the workers there, I’m certain, earn wages that are far above the subsistence level, and also above whatever these workers earned prior to the growth of the transcontinental trade in flowers made possible by the jet engine.

The improvement in the quality of life of ordinary Kenyans made possible today by globalization is noticeable.

Ten or eleven years ago my friend Bob Higgs visited Kenya.  He returned with pictures, of course.  Some of these showed small mud huts that were the homes of some of the Kenyans he met.  I don’t know how many Kenyans today live in such conditions, but I do know that, as long as globalization continues to spread and as long as Kenya is part of it, the day is not far off when mud huts in Kenya – like mud huts in Europe – will no longer exist.

(via cafe hayek)