“The main theme of human history is that we become steadily more specialized in what we produce, and steadily more diversified in what we consume: we move away from precarious self-sufficiency to safer mutual interdependence.” | Matt Ridley in How Innovation Works
I’ve often pondered about the gradual increase in the amount of specialization in our society. I think of it every time I marvel at a complex gadget or some amazing piece of infrastructure.
I thought this note on specialization and the move from “precarious self-sufficiency to safer mutual interdependence” was well put.
It resonated.
