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(28 February 2013, 14:41)bigpaul Wrote: its all about degrees of scale, sure a lot of people can do more work and produce more but then more people are going to require more stuff anyway, a small group or even a single person cannot do as much stuff but they dont need as much stuff in the first place!like I and OH cannot do as much work as say 10 people but then we are only going to need 20% as much as those 10 people!

The foundation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations shows the capability of specialisation of individuals.

He basically shows that a group of people can create more pencils with each person specialising, than the whole group combined doing the whole process individually. The difference was very significant. In regard to what you're on about, I agree, you'd only need 20% the amount, but having said that, with each person specialising, you'd produce well in excess of what you needed. Instead of having 100% of need-production, specialisation results in 120% (or there abouts) of need-production. It causes an excess!!! Happy days for the group. That means, after 5 lots of production, everyone gets a day off haha.