Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Carter is criticizing a celebratory, elite definition of “globalization” that equates it with high-tech connectivity and market integration—benefits disproportionately enjoyed by wealthy countries and classes. By explicitly naming “rich people like us,” he highlights how the term can function as self-congratulation, masking the fact that large portions of humanity lack access to the infrastructure (electricity, phones, computers, reliable networks) that makes such globalization meaningful. The quote underscores a moral and policy challenge: if globalization is to be more than a slogan, it must be measured by improvements in basic living conditions and inclusion, not by the spread of consumer technologies among the already advantaged.