Automating farming and improving efficiency freed up people to take on jobs as potters and blacksmiths. By this article's logic, both potters and blacksmiths a

Automating farming and improving efficiency freed up people to take on jobs as potters and blacksmiths. By this article's logic, both potters and blacksmiths are abstract, constructed jobs. To look at it another way, we're all standing on the shoulders of giants. This is what we call 'civilisation' (possibly with a z, if one is a colonial commoner).