Eli5: Division of Labour
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Suppose you live in a tribal village. There are two tasks: picking fruit and sewing clothes.
If you and your neighbor both do both, you don’t develop as much expertise in either. The time you spend sewing is time you spend not becoming even better at picking fruit and vice-versa. If, on the other hand, you agree to pick fruit and your neighbor to sew clothes, you can each get better at it. That results in more total fruit being picked and more total clothes sewn, increasing the total resources available. That – each of you doing separate things at which you develop expertise – is division of labor.
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