Claims / C-5GQNYP5PDQ

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The unit a production system hires becomes the unit of social life: firms hired individuals, not clans, and within a few generations the extended kin group and its claims on members nearly vanished.

What people are really like

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    entitlements that derived from a person's social ties, not from his or her productivity.

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    As machines proliferated, these social constellations pretty much vanished.

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    People were not just free to construct their own unique personalities, but obliged to.

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    kinship often made claims on people unrelated to the purposes of the company.

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    Companies didn't hire clans, they hired individuals.

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Replaces

The unit a dominant system of production contracts with becomes the unit of social life: machine-age firms hired individuals, not clans, and within a few generations the extended-kin constellation, with its entitlements owed for who you are rather than what you produce, nearly vanished, leaving people obliged to assemble a self and choose their affiliations. Ansary, ch. 24: "Companies didn't hire clans, they hired individuals"; "kinship often made claims on people unrelated to the purposes of the company"; feudal and tribal narratives granted "entitlements that derived from a person's social ties, not from his or her productivity"; "As machines proliferated, these social constellations pretty much vanished"; people were "not just free to construct their own unique personalities, but obliged to." That an economy which contracts with a person-plus-agent will reshape the person in turn, and that a contribution-credit system pays only for productivity and so drops the great-aunt's place at the table, is Leo's step and a caution on P6.

Why. One-sentence rewrite for sprint S-EK48QQ5S0N: the old paragraph mixed the book's finding with our inference; this keeps the finding as one bet, same quotes.