Stop and think for a moment what your living standards would resemble if you had to build the house you live in, grow and raise the food you eat, sew the clothes you wear, and cut the hair on your head. To say that your life would be defined by unrelenting drudgery, and likely death borne of starvation and/or exposure to the elements, brings new meaning to understatement.
Which is why the division of labor is the greatest advance the world has ever known. A statement that similarly brings new meaning to understatement. Really, what other driver of soaring living standards comes remotely close to work divided?
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