A family is not merely or even principally an "economic arrangement". This reductionism of a complex biological, social and cultural arrangement to abstract eco

A family is not merely or even principally an "economic arrangement". This reductionism of a complex biological, social and cultural arrangement to abstract economic principles is pretty much guaranteed to lead you to clean, rational conclusions that entirely miss the point of what you're trying to reason about. You end up talking about people and their experiences as if they are instances in a multi-agent system.