Eli5: Division of Labour
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It’s more efficient for each person to specialize in a task rather than everybody do everything themself. Rather than everybody grow/hunt their own food, cook it, sew and wash clothes, build their house people take on jobs like farmer and seamstress and carpenter and sell their services to others. By specializing on a task and being able to focus on that task all day rather than switching around, more overall output is generated and everybody benefits from the additional productivity.
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