[firecall]

> Since the beginning of human history

You have that backwards though! :-)

We'd get to know people in our community, often because they were born in to it, then we'd fit in to productive roles.

The way we do it these days is a recent, post industrial revolution, mode of society.

[i_am_a_peasant]

Nah I think this paradigm already exists when city states form and you no longer live in a village where everyone knows everyone