• Liz@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Without specialization the effectiveness of trading labor doesn’t go much beyond just doing favors for each other. I don’t get much value out of having you do a task for me if I can do it comparably as well as you can. I have to weigh the benefit of having someone else work for me and building mutual trust against the cost of being indebted to someone else and the risk of them doing differently to how I would have wanted. If we each specialize, now other people can offer labor that I can’t perform myself, and when they get good enough at their specialty it really starts to outweigh the negative sides of having someone else do the work for you.

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        6 months ago

        Money is necessary if you have specialization. You can’t keep track of who has done what favor to whom or how much that favor is really worth. Money is the thing that makes extreme specialization possible.

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            6 months ago

            Another enlightening comment where you sidestep the conversation to laude over others from your imaginary horse.

            Care to explain why it’s nonsense or should we just trust you bro?