> Modern society is highly efficient, but also highly susceptible to disruption. That's something my wife & I have been discussing recently. She pointed out t

> Modern society is highly efficient, but also highly susceptible to disruption. That's something my wife & I have been discussing recently. She pointed out that traditional family structures have more slack built into them, which comes in handy in times of trouble. The problem is that in the modern Taylorist world we treat slack as waste. But it really isn't, any more than insurance is waste.