Yeah, a marked out division of labour helps for sure, but when you consider Africa right now, people are doing whatever they can get not because we lack an organized labour, but because the system has become so hard that that’s the only way to survive. That’s exactly why even when some Africans go to more developed countries, they work menial jobs not because they’re not qualified, but because those jobs are what is accessible to them.
The newspaper question struck me as very interesting. I really haven’t seen a newspaper seller in such a long time.