Coordination at both elite and non-elite levels is the same as it has always been - elites follow ideas and create spontaneous-appearing order, non-elites follow material incentives.
Nah, Consuela isn't a person to the person who's house she cleans because he has no responsibility for her and because she's an expense and not a source of income. Where does she go at night? Who knows. The lord's serf is his problem and source of income, hence is a person.
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If I buy chickens and farm them, they're my problem and source of income. Does that make them people?
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That makes them chickens to you. Chickens cut up in shrink wrapped styrofoam packages in the meat aisle aren't.
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