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Cooperation with others is considered an important factor for human beings all over the world because people are social. However, many people think cooperation is more important factor these days than prior periods, which is not true due to two reasons.
First and formost, I think the period that cooperation with other people was the most pointed out was the agricultural period during mankind history, much more than now. When human beings' first period was to raise crops, cooperation was extremly important because a person or two cannot finish the whole process of agriculture. Since the technology was not well developed, machines for rasing crops did not exist and people have to do their work by their own hands with just simple tools. Comparing with these days which agriculture is not required many people but required only many machines, helping each other for crops was not an optional but eccential. Therefore, the ability to cooperate is more important during agricultural period than these days.
Second, there are so many things that can be done without any help of others in modern society. Many companies have required to do employees' job at office during prior periods. However, these days working at home becomes widespread. It does not mean that all works can be done at home but the occurance of working at home is clearly increasing these days, reducing the importance of cooperation with others. As an example, computer programmers are one of the best examples that the cooperation is getting less importnace. Computer programmers had to learn about new programming skills, discuss with each other in order to build a new system. The lastest trend, however, is all changed. They learn new programming skills not by studying together but by studying with online lecture. Also they do not discuss with others but rather get their own assignment and just do what each person has to finish. Instead specialists are employed for building a new system and assigning a role of each person.
Although interaction with others is important and how people cooperate with others are one of important abilities, it does not mean that these ability is specifically considered to be important these days. Throughout the past periods, cooperation is always considered to be important and the tendency is getting weakened these days due to the modern technology and changed working environment.
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