>>936214You couldn't be more wrong. As human society advances individuals become more specialized because we become more efficient at individual tasks. We then offer our specialization as products or services to others.
If I specialize in making clothes I'm going to make clothes that are x10 better than anything that was made hundreds of years ago and I'm going to be able to produce them at x10 the rate. This means you and your neighbors don't need to produce your own clothes that look like shitty linen potato sacks. Instead you can focus on your specialization, then use currency to exchange for your work, IE basis of the human economy for the last several thousand years.
There are people today who make better soap and traps than people two hundred years ago. Even as hobbyists with the ease of knowledge sharing and the access to all the right tools they have a huge advantage.
