The dictionaries tell us that the word "synergy" indicates "the simultaneous activity of multiple organs or functions aimed at causing the same effect on the organism". And yet, as well as in the field of physiology, the term is used in the social sphere. We are thus led to the idea
of the division of labor. We understand that society is nothing more than the name we give to cooperation between men and women, bearers of differentiated knowledge, resources and skills.
To achieve our goals, we turn to each other. Without the intervention of others, no one can provide for their own life. Everyone dedicates themselves to the task they believe they can carry out most appropriately; and turns to the cooperation of others for the rest of his needs. Which puts each of us in the position of paying for what we do worse with what we do better. And the result is an increase in the productivity of everyone's work, which is equivalent to an increase in everyone's well-being.
Social life is therefore a system that creates "synergies". Even if we often forget it, social cooperation is aimed exactly at this. And it is even more so when it is voluntary, that is, when it leaves everyone the possibility of choosing the task to which to dedicate themselves and the actors whose work to make use of. This is the principle on which every free society is based.
Lorenzo Infantino, Professor of Philosophy of Social Sciences at LUISS Guido Carli