Acapellascience (Tim Blais)
Acapellascience (Tim Blais)
I recently started reading the discworld series by Terry Prattchet and I’m really enjoying it. It has just so absurd humor.
Your book reminded me of “Harry Potter and the methods of Rationality”, which i read a few years ago. The setup is lously based on Harry Potter, however Harry tries to take a scientific and rational view on magic. It is one of my favourite books.
But the more self-sufficient you are, the more resources of yourself you need to supply yourself. So you can provide less societal resources. If you do not need to provide clothes for yourself, you have more time caring for elderly, etc.
As another view, the total resources need does not directly change by changing who does what. The advantages of helping each other are in the OP. At some point however, I would think, the overhead of organization grows so large that it may not be worth it anymore. Just think of the amount of work put into “useless” administration in many countries. But in a 30 person village, this is probably negligible.
Edit: Thanks for helping other people on the feet!