I base this article on an interview with Nara Ravikant, the
founder of Angel list and Angle.co. Specialized Cooperators is a term he
used to describe humanity and how we interact with one another. Now I am
going to explain his reasoning.
Why we are specialized cooperators: Everyone has a skill that we use in
everyday life. We can learn new skills as well, and thus use them to
benefit ourselves. But we cannot know everything. We are unable to
do it all. But we can trade those skills. We can use our auto
repair skills to help someone in exchange for something else. In other
words we trade what we can do so that we can get paid for it in some way and
then in turn the next person does the same thing.
However, it is possible to stagnant this.
If we are inhibited from inventing newer and better things, then we lose
the ability to trade skills as there will be so many people with the same
abilities that we become useless. Computers established new skills in
building them, repairing them and programing them. The internet created
new jobs in social media, advertising and more. People see needs and try
to invent things to meet those needs. And in turn that creates newer
skills to be traded. But technology to is easy to copy. Look at an
organization like ISIS. They came together in part due to the development
of social media. They figured out how to use the technology, but they do
not have the skills to actually make such technology due to education,
background and other limitation. But, Americans and other countries do as
they do not have such limits placed on them (to an extent) and can continuously
invent and thus generate newer skills to be traded amongst each other and thus
perpetuates the cooperation between fellow members of humanity. In short,
we each specialize in something and someone needs that something to fix
whatever ails them, and you are there to fix it, or someone is there to fix
your problem.
Conclusion: Everyone is good at something.
And Mr. Ravikant knows this and thus why he understands we each
specialize in certain skills. By trading skills, we can cooperate and
survive. So let us remember that at the end of the day we all need each
other in some way shape or form.
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