Sometimes social revolutions emerge from ordinary ideas. In the 17th and 18th centuries, thinkers like William Petty, David Hume and Adam Smith popularized a concept called “division of labor.” It’s a simple notion. If I specialize in doing what I’m good at, and you specialize in what you’re good at, and we exchange what we’ve each made, then we’ll both be more productive and better off than if we tried to be self-sufficient.
From Trump and Biden to SpaceX and animal welfare, Vox’s Future Perfect team returned to their predictions made earlier in the year to see what was right, and what wasn’t.
The case against pets, what Oppenheimer got wrong, and the magic of meditation. Vox’s Future Perfect covers animal welfare, global poverty, and meta-science.