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WOMAN: Oh-oh! He’s got an idea.
MAN: Everybody around here is like us. They have one cow, two or three sheep, a few hens and a patch
of ground for corn. They catch their own fish, collect fuel for cooking, build their own houses for
themselves to live in and they make their own clothes for themselves to wear.
WOMAN: Though some are better at some things than others.
MAN: Precisely. For example, you make the best clothes in the village.
WOMAN: You know. He can be quite flattering when he feels like it.
MAN: Though I suppose it’s only because I’m so good at getting good wool from our sheep.
WOMAN: The truth of the matter is that the man with the real knack with sheep is our next door
neighbor, Mr. Shepherd. Not you at all.
MAN: Oh, well, that’s true. I must be best at something though.
WOMAN: Thinking, love. You’re very good at thinking.
MAN: Hey! That gives me an idea. Listen, suppose we alter the system. There are ten families in our
village as it is now. Every household has their own cow and their one sheep. They keep poultry, catch
their own fish, grow their own corn and collect their own fuel.
WOMAN: And they do their own cooking and they make their own clothes.
MAN: Right. So in order not to waste time walking to the woods to collect fuel or waste energy by one
man looking after one cow, why doesn’t each family specialize
WOMAN: What – divide the labor
MAN: Precisely! Division of labor – that’s what it’s all about.
WOMAN: So only one family looks after the sheep.
MAN: Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd. They’ve really got a way with sheep.
WOMAN: And another family sees to the cows.
MAN: The Cowherds– they’re marvelous.
WOMAN: Yes. Another does the fishing.
MAN: Mr. and Mrs. Fisher.
WOMAN: And others do the farming, collect the fuel and do the cooking.
MAN: And we make the clothes for the whole of the village.
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