The Division of Labor Is the Meaning of Life By Kevin D. Williamson

The Division of Labor Is the Meaning of Life By Kevin D. Williamson

What we call “globalization” is a sudden radical expansion in the worldwide division of labor—a miracle of human cooperation that, as such miracles so often are, goes mostly unappreciated and unloved, and often hated. Our globalization is hated for the same reason that Renaissance globalization was hated: It disrupts existing status arrangements and introduces new elements of insecurity and anxiety into communities whose members had believed their situations to be fixed, if not ordained—and who believe that they have a natural right to the fixity of those situations, and that the duty of the state is to secure them. 

Kevin Williamson always has an original insight into the way of the world. This column is no exception.