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I can’t eat shoes and niether can a shoemaker. However, the social dynamics of specialization provoke dependency with should be countered.
If my community has only one person that knows how to hunt in our area and that person dies the whole community is fucked. Continuing with that metaphor, if someone has shaky hands or different sensibilities and can’t shoot the deer they are ansolutely useful elsewhere. I’m not talking meritocracy, but of a culture of personal awareness, communal familiarity, and general understanding which would certainly make it hard to fall into the traps of the shoemaker. Anyways why can’t Bakunin make his own damn shoes?