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One small example of agglomeration via remote work is graphic design. Last century, if your company needed say a logo designed, you’d hire a graphic designer in the same city, meet them in person, etc. In the 1980s they might not even do the computer work themselves, but sketch it out on paper and pay a separate ‘artworker’ to implement it with Adobe Illustrator for them! Graphic designers would do all kinds of work; logos were a small part of it.

These days there are numerous online companies that serve customers globally and specialise just in logo design, at a tiny fraction of the previous price.

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