You can see here clearly how work during the industrial age was fundamentally different from today’s work regime Communities like this were dominated by single type enterprises. There was a shared destiny. You could see, viscerally, the step-wise progress of a given project Precisely because (by current standards) the work was incredibly inefficient and labor intensive, you needed armies of personnel, closely engaged on a single great task. This necessarily engaged a high proportion of the entire local workforce Today’s economy simply doesn’t work this way. Work is fragmented. People go in a thousand different directions. There’s no cohesive narrative that ties it all together