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On noticing that in 1840 a man could be gainfully employed simply as
anorange seller, I comment
on the nature of working practices today and the effect of the
renumeration. Perhaps, then, importing oranges
was a more specialist undertaking, but simply passing on oranges today
would not lead anybody
to earn enough to compete with others employing many more derived means
of living.
Thus it is not that a role has become less specilaised it is the fact
that a role leverages a whole
chain of specilaisations, each of which as had quite a bit of effort
into it's development. A role,
a specilisation has become the tip of the iceberg of many
specialisations. And contrary one's role
may even involve many specilisations made possible via these
faciltation effects of the specialisations - thus less
specialised. Thus a vendor of refreshments on the train is also a book
dealer, and a tourist information
officer and a remover of refuse. These may well have been encouraged by
the greater valueing of (all) labour
these days, again making the specialisation of the orange seller
unviable. However if the trend is to make the role
unduly stressful or that of the customer or his/her convenience worse
it is not a positive trend.
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