On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 04:33:19PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > You're focused on ONE MINISCULE ASPECT of the problem, which is a > negligible fraction of the total. As such, your points don't have any > real impact on the discussion. Come back when you're: > > - Not ever getting your food from grocery stores/restaurants, AND > - Building everything you use from parts, AND > - Fabricating all of those parts from raw resources, AND > - Doing your own taxes, AND > - Building your home yourself from materials, AND > - Doing all home maintenance/upgrades yourself, AND > - Meeting all your healthcare needs without doctors, AND > - providing your own means of transportation as above, AND > - Acting in your own films, filmed with cameras you built yourself, AND > - ... (so many other things that we do regularly)
Wow! Of course, no man is an island etc. etc. I was only responding to the misleading remark: " ... and without specialization it does not work, period. That's why you don't build your own home, grow/raise/kill your own food ... " It is being done by many people. > Get the point yet? You simply can't do all that stuff yourself. Of course not. > Specialization is what makes virtually every aspect of modern society > possible. I'm not disagreeing with you here. :) You could argue, that there has always been specialisation --- there will always be *something* you need from a specialist. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
