Question for you from what you wrote here:
“But over many generations, humans outsource more and more aspects of their lives to third party specialists... and today we live in a society where very few humans are actually capable of surviving without a massive network of trusted third parties. This creates a huge systemic risk.”
I don’t really understand the “huge systemic risk” statement at the end - could you elaborate? What is the risk? Are you implying it’s safer to not have a society of specialists and instead we’d be better off to all be hunter gatherers?
I think the nature of survival is simply different today. I also think people tend to romanticize the hunter gatherer lifestyle and forget to address the harshness of that time, for example where people can starve to death if they can’t forage/store enough food in the winter, etc.
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