Picture this: You have an extended family of 20 close relatives. You all live together in one giant house. You tend your gardens together, cook your meals together, do your laundry together. All chores are shared. All expenses are shared. You will grow up and grow old here.
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Your career will be in one of several family businesses owned by one of the 20 members of your household or by other trusted family members on nearby estates. How much you make doesn’t matter because the businesses themselves pay for the entire household.
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Each estate has one head. If you have any need, any problem at all, you go to the head of the estate and ask for help, and they help because you’re family. The estates are all overseen by one main head who keeps all the estates healthy and strong.
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No sugar coating it: You likely have little say in whom you marry, unless the head of the estate allows you to. But whomever you marry cannot mistreat you because it would scandalize both extensive family lines and cause vicious repercussions. You should learn to love each other.
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Your children will be provided for no matter what happens to you. Family members help care for them every day to give you rests, and they’re taught every day by skilled family so they grow up educated in a range of living skills and business skills.
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When you’re suffering, everyone notices because you live and work in such close proximity. Because you’re family and not strangers, they work to help you in whatever way you need just as you help them in return.
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Any family member who abuses fellow members is dealt with harshly because family is all. The clan cannot be threatened from within, and the head holds the power to punish or exile members for crimes against the family. People must get along and work out their problems, or else.
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That’s one possible example of this type of system.
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