How much communities changed when we all became interchangeable cogs in globalised economic markets: the old…

How much communities changed when we all became interchangeable cogs in globalised economic markets: the old practice of letters of introduction. A community was seen as having agency, new members were assessed using existing relationships. Excerpts from a how-to guide below. /1 https://t.co/oGiw2e0xwc

It all sounds a bit tyrannical by our modern experience of community, where people are free to settle anywhere without having any connection to anybody or anything. But it’s a case of being careful what you wish for. That freedom is also what strips communities of power. /2

‘Go to where the jobs are’ becomes the community agency, in an economy i.e. no agency at all. Jobs become the foundation of community, owned by people usually who live somewhere else. Without jobs, the community ceases to exist. Not much agency there, for the community. /end