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Innovation has created a cycle of self-sufficiency and interdependence. During an economic downturn, there’s a retreat towards self-reliance. In economic advances brought on by innovations, an increase in interdependent cooperation comes because we specialize more in services but buy everything else. This cycle creates a lasting theme across human history. The narrowing of work and broadening of everything else. Put another way, there’s a gradual increase in specialization and a diversification in consumption. Something that increases specialization or diversifies consumption lasts through these cycles. Self-sufficiency comes and goes.
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