My vision Israel is a small country with a small population. Logically, there should not be much room for many professional specializations. The wide diversity in accomplishments is thus surprising and interesting.
Let's consider the facts:
A growing society requires various basic workers. After subtracting the civil servants, sales staff, builders, teachers, policemen, cooks, farmers, and guards, the remaining pool of available specialty workers is quite limited.
Some fields, such as computers, are have a greater representation than others. As a result, this field does indeed have specialists, with supervisors, administrators, marketers, and workers in each specialty.
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange shows other relatively large industries, each having special requirements.
The herd instinct does not seem to apply in Israel as in other countries. Israelis do diversify. They do not necessarily do the same things as their friends or contacts.
However, the abysmal lack of serious occupational planning means that people are sometimes trained for, encouraged to join, or directed into potentially saturated fields. Cutbacks in previously-profitable fields sometimes result in a glut of professional specialists.
Proper planning and forecasting could have eliminated those problems.
is to make
the most diverse state
on earth,
and we have people
from every planet...
on the earth
in this
state.
- Gray Davis,
former governor
of California
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