Wealth & Money Quote by Phil Condit

Condit frames globalization as an unavoidable roommate: you can sulk in your bedroom or learn how to share the kitchen. The genius of the line is its domestic imagery. “Pull the covers over your head” turns a sprawling macroeconomic shift into a childish, private refusal. It’s not just fear; it’s willful regression. Against that, “be good at it” offers competence as a moral posture. Globalization isn’t presented as noble or even fair, just real, and adulthood means adapting.

The subtext is classic late-20th-century corporate realism: inevitability dressed up as choice. Condit grants two “ways,” but only one is socially acceptable, making the decision less an open debate than a referendum on whether you’re serious. The phrase “that’s the world I am going to live in” shrinks ideology into personal biography, sidestepping the question of who designed the system and who pays for it. It’s a manager’s argument: you don’t litigate the weather, you build better rooflines.

Context matters: Condit, as a Boeing-era executive voice, speaks from the command deck of the global economy, not the cargo hold. For workers and communities battered by offshoring or consolidation, “be good at it” can sound like a cheerful memo announcing the reorg. Still, the line endures because it captures a recognizable psychological fork: denial feels comforting; competence, even in a messy world, feels like agency. The quote sells adaptation as dignity while quietly naturalizing the forces that demand it.