THE INDIVIDUAL (PRODUCTION) AND THE FAMILY (REPRODUCTION) The individual actor m

THE INDIVIDUAL (PRODUCTION) AND THE FAMILY (REPRODUCTION)

The individual actor may be the unit of calculation in any question of the productive economy. However, the family is the central organization reproduction, and the economy merely serves this purpose.

Individualism then is merely a means of allocating incentives to the parties able to act most dynamically with the least friction in the voluntary organization of production.

However, that is **MERELY** a question of economics, not of the reproduction that individuals in the productive economy SERVE.

As such, the family is and always will be the central unit of calculation in any SOCIETY even if in commercial and legal matters, the individual is the central unit of calculation.

Those groups that de-emphasize family and tribe in favor of the individual will be outbreak, out competed by those that retain the family and tribe as the central unit of society.