I quite agree. As many negative elements as they tend to attract, without them any kind of practical progress or advancement in a society would grind to a halt.

Although admittedly, the Internet does at least offer alternative avenues for free trade of ideas and knowledge, actual goods and resources are still going to be largely port for quite a while, regardless of whether or not we're heavily dependent on foreign produced goods. There's just some resources that we may not be able to acquire from more local regions.