Is society more efficient when it's heterogeneous or homogenous?

Question

Is society more efficient when it's heterogeneous or homogenous?

Answer 1

homogenous, I'd say, but it would also be a lot duller.

Answer 2

heterogeneous .

Answer 3

hetrogeneous, everyone is unique and has a different point of view oherwise we may as well be a dictatorship!

Answer 4

probably heterogeneous for complex societies and homogeneous for smaller ones. With a large society your going to have a hard time stratifying society in a way that the number of different tasks that need to be accomplished to sustain the society end up getting done. Inequality can end up being efficient on a societal scale in this sense, because not everyone can have the most prized positions in society, and its harder to justify this if the society sees everyone as equal or has few differences (perceived or real).

In a smaller society, with fewer tasks needed to sustain the society, it likely would help to have a pretty static homogeneous society, as there would likely be less rocking of the boat so to speak.

Answer 5

Homogeneous societies are always more "efficient" as they tend to focus more on the good of the group and not the greedy wants of the individual.

Also, they tend not to be as hobbled by self-destructive constructs like "political correctness".

A flashlight emits light waves from across the entire visible spectrum, but a laser focuses a single (homogeneous) wavelength. Which is more "efficient"?

I guess it depends on if you're trying to cut through steel plate or find your car keys in the dark.

Answer 6

homogenius would be more efficient but no fun, we would all be depressedand would not be able to survive so it would only be effective in the short term

Answer 7

Im gonna say homogeneous because homogeneous people are not reproducing and to be efficient we need not to reproduce the world is already over populated as it is !!!

even though people die every day people are born everyday so it evens out homogeneous relieve the population problem .