Once upon a time there was this culture that valued independence. Individuals who came of working age could live on their own property, drive their own cars, and do whatever they wanted in the privacy of their own homes.They had good jobs that paid them well enough to support themselves and they were happy. When marriage occurred, they could still survive with only one breadwinner and still raise their children with a vastly superior education while one parent stayed home and nurtured the children.
There was another culture that was so poor they couldn't afford individual freedom. They lived just over the border. Up to five generations of a family lived together and they survived.
Living together in large numbers in a confined space, it became common for them to combine their incomes, share space, share transportation costs, and it eventually became part of their culture. They dealt with issues like courtship and marriage in a very different way than the other culture because they had no privacy.
One day someone from the communal culture went across the border to the independent culture and agreed to work for half the normal wages of the independent worker.
The bosses liked this allot so they closed their businesses just to get rid of their independent culture employees, moved somewhere else nearby, and hired only workers from the communal culture.
Soon, independent workers were losing their jobs and being forced to move back home with their parents. They had to share living space, and eventually they had to share transportation.
Ultimately, landlords began building company houses on company property because nobody could afford cars anymore, and people worked and lived on company property like the do in China.
The End