Yes, I consider Lidl in Lottstteten 35 km from Zurich “the area where I live”. Besides I can say that other way round: world is more complex than naive sentimental localism assumes. Without interdependence that global free trades creates, military domination would be much less costly.
Taleb is a very interesting author. Not sure what he means by being socialist to family and friends, I hope he’s not redistributing their property by force and putting the family right-wingers into gulag in his basement.