Community in Capitalism
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Community in Capitalism
the tension between the value of the individual and the concept of joining. ‘The mindset of the last few decades of capitalism telling us that we create our individual identities through the choices that we make in the marketplace is the opposite energy from ‘I’m joining a party.’’
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
But I wonder what it would look like for financial or personal growth to lead to different, better kinds of communal living instead of an exit from it altogether.
Haley Nahman • #96: Why Do We Aspire to Live Alone?
I would venture that the newer tenants, though they were troubled by the conditions, ran up against the wall of individualism. Once they understood that something was not just their problem but a collective problem, requiring collective action and identification with a community to be solved, it was preferable to them to just drop it. That is, even
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Human beings are fundamentally social animals. Behavioral economics and psychological research have taught us that we fundamentally crave a sense of connectedness, belonging, mission, and meaning, particularly when performing our work.