You can learn a lot about a culture by reading their fiction and noticing what they take for granted. In honor of the season, let’s look at A Christmas Carol. 1/
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It’s not that business partners today are *never* staunch lifelong friends. Rather, it’s that (1) this is much less common for us than it was in Dickens’s time, and (2) it’s not a socially recognized script for us like it was for them. 7/
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(To be fair, a single story isn’t enough to be highly confident in an interpretation like this. I confirmed this in other British literature, and in letters between actual business partners. I’d guess this was a thing in Britain from maybe the mid-1700s to the late 1800s.) 8/
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This thread was mostly about how to do anthropology through fiction, but for more on the role of friendship between business partners as a load-bearing social technology, check out Samo’s thread: https://twitter.com/SamoBurja/status/1109849875061960705 … 9/9
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I'm not sure when / if this ended. Might just be that less people started businesses AT ALL after industrialization so it's not widely known. My grandfather shut down the company and fell completely apart personally after his business partner died. That was Ireland in 70s/80s.
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