💬 Why we’re less handy than our dads, and why that’s a good thing 📨 This is the latest edition of Geek Week, a newsletter by TomChivers ⬇️ Read it here:
[As] a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal long ago, I hired a cook who had no formal education but was spectacularly intelligent and resourceful. Beyond preparing excellent meals, he could butcher a goat, thatch a roof, plaster walls, resole shoes and fix broken alarm clocks. He was also an able tinsmith and a skilled carpenter. Yet his total lifetime earnings were less than even a very lazy, untalented American might earn in a single year.
If one of us specialises, though, and makes all the sandwiches for the entire tribe, then it becomes economically viable to buy a breadmaker, a meat-slicer, a jar of mustard. And if you’re making 500 sandwiches, you can make each one quicker than any individual can make their own. In fact, some of us are better at both. It might well be that one person is the best sandwich-maker and the best hunter. But even then, that person is best doing the thing they’re best at. Even if they can make more sandwiches than I can, and kill more deer than I can, if they’re especially good at making the sandwiches then it’s best if I go and kill the deer.
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