Global Lockup: How the World Learned to Rent Empty Space and Call It Progress
GENEVA—Somewhere in the fluorescent bowels of the World Trade Organization, a delegate from Singapore is arguing with a delegate from Brazil about the precise tariff code for “climate-controlled self-storage units, modular, 2.5 m², not elsewhere specified.” The rest of the planet, meanwhile, keeps shoveling its past into corrugated metal boxes and pretending the future will…