Glossary
Capitalist division of labor that forces a person into one sphere of activity.
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specialization
Capitalist division of labor that forces a person into one sphere of activity.
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Glossary
One element of the pyramid economy: specialized techniques such as carving granite, moving granite, and making measurements.
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diagnosis
He identifies specialization, funding bureaucracy, and credentialism as reasons modern science has not produced major discoveries and as mechanisms that prevent truth discovery.
diagnosis
Jiang reads Marx as saying capitalism imprisons people in specialized roles that prevent full individual expression.
model
The pyramid economy depends on three simultaneous capacities: specialization, institutionalization as memory of knowledge, and systemization that coordinates writing, finance, workshops, and labor.
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"...discoveries, and there are three reasons why, okay? The first is specialization. You're only allowed to focus on one very specific problem, and while..."
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"You actually don't spend most of your time trying to solve the problems of the universe. The third thing is credentialism, where if you..."
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"For as soon as the distribution of labor comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity which is forced upon..."
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"...pleasures of life. The problem with capitalism is the idea of specialization, right? Where you're forced to do one thing, one thing only, according..."
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"...the pyramid economy, I'm talking about three things. I'm talking about specialization, right? Just massive specialization, including how to carve granite, how to move..."
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"...you needed all three things to happen at the same time. Specialization, institutionalization, and systemization. You can also argue the man who created this..."
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"You need writing, a writing system. You need a financial system. You need a lot of elements, okay? I'm making this sound a lot..."
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"...always evolving. But for capitalism, what matters is division of labor, specialization, because that's what allows for the most rapid industrial growth. And so,..."
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"...resources that allow you to make gunpowder, okay? So you need specialization. With specialization, you need centralization, hierarchy, and bureaucracy. And that's what empires..."
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"...important than villages, right? Because it's towns where you have the specialization going on and not the villages. The thing, to remember about the..."
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"...over time, each department will over -specialize. Okay? You have over -specialization, which means that these departments are now unable to communicate with each..."
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"...understand what you're doing. Okay? So that's the second problem, over -specialization. The third problem is the idea of accountability. Okay? How do you..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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