Fixing a Broken World

Why Learn from the past to fix the present

Afroz Chakure
5 min readNov 18, 2023

For the past year, I have been having these thoughts a lot:

  • Why the world is the way it is?
  • Why it still functions despite all the challenges of corruption, wars, income and racial inequality, nepotism, etc?

Yes, oftentimes things break and chaos ensues but eventually it too subsides, clarity takes over and peace prevails.

  • How everyone just fits in their role?
  • How does everything just works as part of this machine to make the whole world work?
Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash

Learning from Adam Smith

Labour was the first price, the original purchase — money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally

— Adam Smith, author of Wealth of Nations

Everything boils down to simple economics.

Things like Division of Labour, where by People choose to specialize in one or two particular skill sets while they give little to no thought about other skills or areas of work.

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