We are living in amazing times. What fraction of the goods and services that you consume each day would you be able to produce yourself? How would our hunter-gatherer forebears have answered that question?
I often think that my living room required a few hundred million people to make. Without mutual funds, the semi-conductor industry would be non-existent or vastly smaller, since they need to raise billions to make new fab facilities.
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See, "I, Pencil" by Leonard E. Read: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html …
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Read it several times over the years, it's a fun essay.
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