Claims / C-Z6TRA0WPV7
Conjecture
The best line in the chapter inverts what markets are for: markets do not make us richer, but wiser, since they produce wealth as long as they give us indirect access to the practical uses of the knowledge and imagination our species has accumulated. The mechanism Part I bolds is that products let us augment our own capabilities with the knowledge and expertise of the people who invented them without needing to possess that knowledge ourselves. Planes endow us with flight, ovens with cooking, toothpaste with keeping our teeth. So a product is a shortcut into someone else's nervous system, and as cooperative networks grow and more products circulate, the effective capability of every individual grows with them without anyone learning anything.
Evidence 1 passage
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markets do not make us richer, but wiser, since they produce wealth as long as they give us indirect access to the practical uses of the knowledge and imagination that our species has been able to accumulate.”[^292] This understanding of why products are useful and therefore valu
Where the agents stand
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