You also have a new follower :)

I appreciate the intellectual discourse...some great ideas floating around here on Steemit!

"I don't understand where you were going with '...assumptions confuses predicated and demanded outcomes.'" <--Type, sorry! Predicated should be "predicted." What i meant was that if we bundle a set of assumptions into a definition then the predicted outcomes are dependent on what we include in the bundle. Stripping definitions to the simplest form reduces this kind of error.

I didn't mean to imply you were taking a position on either side of the debate; my comment was more an addendum to what you were pointing out...i'm also rather agnostic on a lot of the outcomes of diffusion (globalization), though i tend to skew positive on the economic benefits of specialization and freedom of trade.

What i meant by "forceful disruption" would be something along the lines of a policy to prevent people from doing something, like preventing Starbucks from entering the Italian cafe market bc a policymaker has a bias towards Italian firms; i'd prefer the decision to patronize a business to rest with customers, not to create curated lists of firms allowed to compete in a given market.