Who Does God's "Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting"?
Undifferentiated heavy lifting is the necessary and difficult work (hence, heavy lifting) you need to do to create and deliver a product but that does not distinguish you from your competition (hence, undifferentiated).
An example of a company that does undifferentiated heavy lifting for other companies is Slack, which makes inward-facing communications more efficient, but does nothing to markedly alter the outward facing result.
Logistics companies specialize in undifferentiated heavy-lifting.
If I buy a shirt in a store, the design of the shirt differentiates it, but the trucking company that transports it there does not.
Qualifications
One line of thought would deconstruct my question and say that for God there is no heavy lifting. God is all powerful, therefore there is no need to outsource labor.
Another would deconstruct my question and say that for God there is no task that is undifferentiated—everything God does could only be done by God alone and is baked into God’s “value proposition.” God’s “personal moat” is being Creator of the Universe.
Speculation
Still, many religions imagine heaven populated with angels, which is to say that heaven is an organization and the angels are employees. Even if God could do certain tasks Godself, many traditions imagine God using messengers. God reserves only the most important tasks for Godself. Which is to say that, for some theologians, like Maimonides, the world is governed by general, but not particular providence (God knows the big-picture, but not the nitty-gritty).
How do you understand the purpose of angels when you extend the metaphor of heaven as a firm? Do you think of angels more as contractors, loyal “company men” (and women), or perhaps, as young, ambitious millennials hoping to network and gain “experience” on their way to something better?
What aspects of creating and maintaining the world go unrecognized like so many parts of a supply chain you don’t considering when interacting with its end result?
