Because we invented individualism, property rights, the absolute nuclear family,

Because we invented individualism, property rights, the absolute nuclear family, merit based inheritance, high trust society, the commons as an informal corporation thereby decreasing income needs, producing the institutionalization of unlimited individual responsibility, the resulting soft eugenics, mobile workers in populations, the fragmentation of families by the industrial revolution, mass migration to industrial employment, and the subsequent development of the welfare state, and by the 1960s the repeal of ancient laws obligating children to support destitute parents.

Y’all didn’t.

In my work I recommend restoration of responsibility using the singapore model.

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