This series will be good. I can feel it.
“We are used to thinking about this question in terms of individuals, but this is a modern framework, both culturally and economically. As a cultural notion, modern societies tend to be quite a bit more individualistic than pre-modern societies, for reasons that, I suspect, are going to become clear as we go. But for economic reasons, while an individual in a modern society can hold a job, pay their bills and generally live ‘on their own,’ effectively no peasant farmer can run their farm alone.”
https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-i-households/