Division of Labour

"The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour... As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent of this division must always be limited by the extent of that market."

Wealth of Nations

This made me think of the tower of Babel:

"The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there. They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.""

Genesis

There they had a great market and so supposedly a great division of labour and so there was really nothing, in material terms, they could not do. God didn't like it, because what they did was bad, but still we should, I believe, understand the principle of division of labour, and to turn all possible productive powers to good. Thus doing we could probably be a little more in cunning like the cunning snakes.