dfspcc20
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Our society strongly values "independence" ...
Most notions of "independence" are myths. Like "financial independence".
We're just as dependent on others now as we always were. The difference now is that we're dependent (via money) on strangers, vs being dependent on people we know intimately through community.
Example: childcare used to be essentially free. As @Don and @GAF pointed out, kids played freely in neighborhoods. Parents weren't actively babysitting any of them, but if trouble arose, any of the parents would be willing to step in. Now it's pretty much expected that you need to pay for childcare or other structured activities.