Interdependence

I wanted to talk a little about interdependence economically before we get into it during class. You know how some people talk about specializing in one specific thing and then others talk about not putting all your eggs in one basket, well which is it? Interdependence has to do with being dependent on others for some needs. We obviously can’t solely produce everything we need, so in order to fix this we need interdependence. The good thing about interdependence is it allows us to sample things from all parts of the county, state, country and even world. Going back to the specialization interdependence allows us to proceed in doing what were good at. For one instance a farmer growing corn. It would not be a smart idea for a farmer to try and grow rice when the part of the world he lives in doesn’t produce rice very well. That way the farmer could specialize in growing corn, sell it and buy the amount of rice he would consume. Interdependence expands our markets and allows us to import as well as export. But there are also some things bad about interdependence. Sometimes interdependence creates too much of a dependence, kind of like putting all your eggs in one basket. With being dependent on some things it holds us back from allowing us to specialize in certain things. Interdependence is more of an economic term than a biology term but for what we discuss it allows us to see the root of the matter.